7deeds » zsh http://blog.7deeds.com Petros Amiridis - A humble programmer's seven noteworthy actions for the community Mon, 31 May 2010 12:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How to enable VCS infromation in zsh http://blog.7deeds.com/2010/03/10/enable-vcs-infromation-in-zsh/ http://blog.7deeds.com/2010/03/10/enable-vcs-infromation-in-zsh/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:07:59 +0000 Petros http://blog.7deeds.com/?p=409 If you are using zsh as your terminal in Ubuntu, you can use a built in feature to display version control information at the prompt.

After reading “Zsh Prompt Magic” I created the zsh_vcs_info file which you can download. You place it in your home directory and open .zshrc and add the following line:

source /home/user/.zsh_vcs_info

Notice that I added a . (dot) in the filename because I want it to be hidden. Also, notice that “user” in the path above, is the username of the account you use to log into Ubuntu.

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