zsh-git-best-practices

A zsh prompt to encourage best practices of git. Currently it encourages you to commit frequently by showing a message on the command prompt when it sees any uncommited changes. Here is the blog post explaining why commiting frequenty is important.

See the image below – the plugin is showing Don’t forget to commit frequently in the command prompt in red color.

setup

• clone this repo under $ZSH/custom/plugins
• add zsh-git-best-practices plugin in .zshrc
• go to your zsh theme file and add $(git_warn) at the end of the PS1. For example for af-magic theme we updated PS1 in af-magic.zsh-theme to PS1='$FG[237]${(l.$(afmagic_dashes)..-.)}%{$reset_color%}$(git_warn)
• don't forget to source your .zshrc

notes

• currently the message is displayed whenever there are some uncommited changes. you can update this condition in zsh-git-best-practices.plugin.zsh
• you can update the message to be displayed under zsh-git-best-practices.plugin.zsh file

credits

• https://github.com/olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt