Powerlevel9k: vcs segment not working

[gipert]

My .zshrc:

# OH-MY-ZSH
ZSH=/home/GERDA/pertoldi/.oh-my-zsh
DEFAULT_USER="pertoldi"
plugins=(git rsync zsh-autosuggestions colored-man-pages colorize)

# powerlevel9k plugin
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k"
POWERLEVEL9K_MODE='awesome-fontconfig'
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_HOME_BACKGROUND='003'
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_HOME_SUBFOLDER_BACKGROUND='003'
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_DEFAULT_BACKGROUND='003'
POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(host dir)
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(status background_jobs vcs)
POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_VERBOSE=false
POWERLEVEL9K_HOME_ICON=''
POWERLEVEL9K_HOME_SUB_ICON=''
POWERLEVEL9K_FOLDER_ICON=''
#POWERLEVEL9K_ROOT_ICON='⚡︎'
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR=''
POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH=3
POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER=''
POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_STRATEGY="truncate_from_right"
POWERLEVEL9K_SSH_ICON=''

export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=30
COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"
#
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

export LSCOLORS=gxfxbEaEBxxEhEhBaDaCaD
export LS_COLORS="di=34:ln=32:so=93:pi=1;37:ex=31:ow=35:*.root=33:*.pdf=91:*.dat=92"
source ~/.alias

Everything works just fine except when I cd in a git repository:

then no segments are displayed at all and the shell seems no to be responsive anymore. What can I try to debug this issue?

[bhilburn]

Wow. That is, indeed, pretty strange. And, just to make sure, the git repository you are cding into is local (not sshfs mounted or anything)?

What version of git do you have installed?

Also, just to make sure, I see you have configured it into your right prompt, but your screenshot doesn't show that. Is it just that you cut off the image before the right prompt segments?

[gipert]

Considering that the server I'm currently working on isn't my property, the file system of the repo seems to be regular to me...

$ git --version
git version 1.7.1

The right prompt appears only when needed, so, for example, on another machine:

[bhilburn]

Whoa, git 1.7.1 is ancient. I'm pretty sure we are relying on features introduced at least in 2.0+.

How did you install git? There /has/ to be a way to get a more up-to-date version of git on your system.

[gipert]

Ahah yep, I was suspecting that...

All this happens on a server for scientific computing, where sysadmins keep constantly downgraded all the developer's tools in order not to break some very ancient, no more mantained, software that people still use. I know this is awful, but that's how it works here...

Anyway thank you, I think we can close this issue.

[bhilburn]

@luigipertoldi - OOooof. Yeah, that's rough. Sorry =(