dahlbyk/posh-git

A PowerShell environment for Git

Keith Dahlby

@dahlbyk

Greetings, Gitters

Edward Evans

@eeevans

is there a way to debug the posh-git prompt? Sometimes when I update it stops working i.e. I just get PS>

Keith Dahlby

@dahlbyk

set $GitPromptSettings.Debug = $true in a session, or in your profile, to get a trace of what posh-git is doing

I sometimes see a PS> if I've hit Ctrl-C to kill a program, but hitting Enter should show you a prompt again

you can also check $Error for all PowerShell errors

Rob Reynolds

@ferventcoder

it works...

haha

Keith Dahlby

@dahlbyk

@ferventcoder :wave:

Rob Reynolds

@ferventcoder

howdy stranger!

haven't seen you much this year. Heads down for both of us I think

Keith Dahlby

@dahlbyk

indeed

Keith Dahlby

@dahlbyk

@eeevans not sure if you will have automatically received notifications on my suggestions, so mentioning you just in case :grinning:

Edward Evans

@eeevans

thanks #Error gave me a hint that poshScope has not been defined..I found these lines at the end of my $profile

Rename-Item Function:\Prompt PoshGitPrompt -Force

function Prompt() {if(Test-Path Function:\PrePoshGitPrompt){++$global:poshScope; New-Item function:\script:Write-host -value "param([object] `$object,`$backgroundColor, `$foregroundColor, [switch]`$nonewline) " -Force | Out-Null;$private:p = PrePoshGitPrompt; if(--$global:poshScope -eq 0) {Remove-Item function:\Write-Host -Force}}PoshGitPrompt}

commenting them out fixed it

Keith Dahlby

@dahlbyk

hrm, OK - that code comes from the Chocolatey package install, and honestly it just needs to be rewritten. I believe there's an open PR that adjusts how the posh-git prompt is handled, but I just haven't taken time to review it. :frowning:

Keith Hill

@rkeithhill

OK the Gitter badge on the posh-git repo is live.

Rob Reynolds

@ferventcoder

Yay

Keith Hill

@rkeithhill

And now we have a build badge for our Pester tests. :-)

Joey Piccola

@joeypiccola

I have a win8.1 machine with PS.5 installed that I can't seem to get Posh-Git to work on. When I cd into a git directory the prompt does not change. I've installed and imported the module.

Joey Piccola

@joeypiccola

I figured it out. I had define some vars in my profile.

Keith Hill

@rkeithhill

@joeypiccola That experience should change when posh-git 0.7.0 releases. With the new version, simply importing the posh-git module will change the PowerShell prompt function to display Git status summary info in the prompt. However, posh-git will not change the prompt function if it detects that you have your own, customized prompt function. In that case, look at https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/wiki/Customizing-Your-PowerShell-Prompt for examples of how to integrate posh-git into your own prompt function.

Joseph Musser

@jnm2

Can I move C:\tools\poshgit to %appdata%\poshgit somehow?

Am I able to use the Chocolatey package without creating a C:\tools folder?

Rob Reynolds

@ferventcoder

@jnm2 change $env:ChocolateyToolsLocation to somewhere else

that could be your $env:AppData folder

and it will just start working. HTH

Joseph Musser

@jnm2

Cool, thanks!

Rob Reynolds

@ferventcoder

in powershell, run ls env: and look to be sure that is the name of the folder

Felix Becker

@felixfbecker

Is it possible to install posh-git on MacOS?

I tried it with Install-Module but my prompt now looks like this:

/Users/felix/git/vscode [master ≡]> /Users/felix/git/vscode [master ≡]

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Rename-Item Function:\Prompt PoshGitPrompt -Force