Okay UNIX/BSD/Linux People, which do you prefer?

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@omar systemd, always solving problems no one ever had.

But it's ground breaking!

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@nuintari Oh that's cursed! (I love it) 😹

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@catsalad @nuintari
No.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@catsalad It detected the presence of .git folders, and included branch information inline in the prompt.

So if you changed branches in the same CWD, your prompt would reflect it.

That is almost useful, except that I find overly complicated prompts distracting.

[brad@1040ste.net]

@nuintari /export/home if I'm roaming

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@nuintari

"Everything goes into the /usr hole"

No!

[stenhaastrup@eupolicy.social]

@nuintari @catsalad and executables in /usr/🗑️

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@nuintari@bsd.cafe Heh missing the original /usr :D

Also as much as I can appreciate illumos, /export/home is just annoying.

[klausman@mas.to]

@nuintari @catsalad For git checkouts, I do like the indication of "dirtiness" and being behind the remote branch, but only for small repos/on fast computers. In text, that is, not emoji.

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@nuintari @catsalad I think bash/zsh can do this too, with some scripting.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@christopherkunz @catsalad See my post in greater detail, it absolutely was bash.

Never used zsh, but wouldn't be surprised.

[xyhhx@social.treehouse.systems]

@nuintari /var/home 🤓

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@klausman @catsalad Yeah, you could do that shit with a single character, such as an asterisk.

[klausman@mas.to]

@nuintari @catsalad I think the default git-prompt.sh that ships with git on Debian does a reasonable job of being terse but informative, plus it's configurable.

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@nuintari @catsalad This is how it's done in zsh: https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Appendix-A:-Git-in-Other-Environments-Git-in-Zsh

[whynotzoidberg@topspicy.social]

@nuintari can't have SPACE so "Something else" won't work.

Who me dad jokes?

[neonutopia@mastodon.pub.solar]

@nuintari I used silverblue for a long time, and I think its convention of /var/home makes the most sense. After all, your user folder is sort of like your own personal database.

[otagi@mastodon.cloud]

@nuintari @catsalad I wouldn’t feel at home without the branch name in the prompt. (using starship.rs)

[leeloo@chaosfem.tw]

@WhyNotZoidberg @nuintari
You mean C:\HOME? Or is it B:\HOME?

That was how it was written on the OS that couldn't handle spaces.

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@nuintari
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