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Comment by ulzeraj | Hacker News Reader

ZSH plus oh-my-zsh cd’ing into a git repo with large LFS files will hang your shell even on very fast NVME storage.

You can get reasonable version control integration from zsh without any kind of wild oh-my-zsh config. Most distributed versions of zsh are compiled with vcs_info enabled.

    autoload -Uz vcs_info
    zstyle ':vcs_info:*' enable git hg
    zstyle ':vcs_info:*' check-for-changes true
    zstyle ':vcs_info:git*' formats "%{$fg[cyan]%}(%{$fg[green]%}%s %{$fg[blue]%}%r%{$fg[cyan]%}:%{$fg[green]%}%b%{$fg[yellow]%}%m%u%c%{$fg[cyan]%})%{$reset_color%} "

    setopt prompt_subst
    export PROMPT="%{$fg_bold[red]%}%n%{$reset_color$fg[white]%}@%{$fg_bold[green]%}%m%{$reset_color$fg[white]%}:%{$fg[cyan]%}%1~ \${vcs_info_msg_0_}%{$fg_bold[white]%}%(#.#.\$) %{$reset_color%}"

I found that all I really wanted to show was the current branch, which I do with https://gist.github.com/ivan/79de5e87210e8cf21e305bb4c30c436...

You can do this in fish with a direct call to git branch, and it’s not slow and doesn’t require catting files:

  set -l git_branch (git branch 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/\* /s///p')
  if test -n "$git_branch"
    echo -n -s (set_color yellow) "<$git_branch>" (set_color normal) " "
  end

That’s the git plugin doing it’s thing. You can fix it in config but I admit is an annoying default.

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