Steve Losh • 3/17/2009

Mercurial Bash Prompts

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This technical blog post details how to customize a bash shell prompt to display the current Mercurial (hg) branch and repository status (clean/dirty). It provides code snippets for .bashrc, explains the logic, and mentions the author's subsequent creation of a more elegant hg-prompt extension.

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Mercurial Bash Prompts

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