dotfiles/zsh/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/branch/README.md

Branch

Displays the current Git or Mercurial branch fast.

Speed test

Mercurial

$ time hg branch
0.11s user 0.14s system 70% cpu 0.355 total

Branch plugin

$ time zsh /tmp/branch_prompt_info_test.zsh
0.00s user 0.01s system 78% cpu 0.014 total

Usage

Edit your theme file (eg.: ~/.oh-my-zsh/theme/robbyrussell.zsh-theme) adding $(branch_prompt_info) in your prompt like this:

- PROMPT='${ret_status}%{$fg_bold[green]%}%p %{$fg[cyan]%}%c %{$fg_bold[blue]%}$(git_prompt_info)%{$fg_bold[blue]%} % %{$reset_color%}'
+ PROMPT='${ret_status}%{$fg_bold[green]%}%p %{$fg[cyan]%}%c %{$fg_bold[blue]%}$(git_prompt_info)$(branch_prompt_info)%{$fg_bold[blue]%} % %{$reset_color%}'

Maintainer

Victor Torres (vpaivatorres@gmail.com)