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Use https://starship.rs/ abs get the same prompt in all your shells. Also it’s written in rust, so it’s faster than a load of bash scripts.

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Absolutely a quality of life tool. Very few excuses left to put up with zsh + Oh-My-Zash.

I mean, the other alternative is just keep your prompt simple. ;-)

This. The one time a month when I can't remember which git branch I'm on I'll just run 'git branch'. If you're feeling frisky, you could even alias that to 'gb'.

One time a month? Currently I have 85 work related repositories checked out, putting the current git branch and current Kubernetes context in the prompt is helping to avoid mistakes.

I also have a newline in my prompt which makes it easier to copy commands and output into Jira.

85 repos seems like so many. Are you making many changes that need to span across multiple? How many are touched over the course of a week?

I'm guessing this place is not using mono-repo. ;-)

I don't have 85 repo but 5 worktree were enough to make me do some errors, so I print the 'environment' configured and the current path but that wasn't enough so now I 'invert' the colors if the current directory doesn't match the environement variables --> no more errors

>you could even alias that to 'gb'.

oh-my-zsh does this by default as it comes with the "git" plugin loaded. "gb -vv" is a common thing I run.

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