Spaceship-prompt: Different colors for different git status

[felipesere]

Issue

Currently, it's only possible to distinguish the different git status by icon/symbols.
Icons feel more distracting than colors, and colors can be matched with the actual output of git status.

As a consequence, it would be valuable to have more fine-grained control over the colors in git.

See #375

[salmanulfarzy]

Did you mean something like this ?

[felipesere]

I've briefly dug out my previous zsh prompt to make a screenshot:

You can see the three dots in the right that mirror the colors of git status.
That is what I'd like to be able to do :)

I used the this character: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2022/index.htm

[maximbaz]

I love the idea! Could you share the config that colorizes the output of git status itself?

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Today it is possible to configure the spaceship icons too, it's a bit cumbersome, but possible 🙂

The approach is basically to set all the options using this format: %F{<new-color>}<icon>%F{<default-color>}

For example, choose the default color as red and do:

export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_ADDED="%F{yellow}+%F{red}"
export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_UNTRACKED="%F{blue}?%F{red}"
export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_DELETED="%F{green}x%F{red}"
export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_MODIFIED="%F{red}!%F{red}"

It looks like this:

If you want to use • as a character, just use it everywhere:

export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_ADDED="%F{yellow}•%F{red}"
export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_UNTRACKED="%F{blue}•%F{red}"
export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_DELETED="%F{green}•%F{red}"
export SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_MODIFIED="%F{red}•%F{red}"

[felipesere]

I think its just this:

[color "status"]
  added = yellow
  changed = green
  untracked = blue

I also have an alias for git s that is a bit more compact than git status:

[alias]
  s   = status -s -b

edit:
This is the setup that matches my git status:

SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_ADDED="%F{yellow}•%F{red}"
SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_UNTRACKED="%F{blue}•%F{red}"
SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_DELETED="%F{red}•%F{red}"
SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_MODIFIED="%F{green}•%F{green}"

[maximbaz]

But to make it clear, the preferred code fix would be to add the configurations below to the git_status section in addition to the existing SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR:

SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR_ADDED="${SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR_ADDED="$SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR"}"
SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR_UNTRACKED="${SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR_UNTRACKED="$SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR"}"
SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR_DELETED="${SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR_DELETED="$SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR"}"
...

[k-sriram]

We can also add SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR_AHEAD, "_BEHIND, and "_DIVERGED . These are usually in cyan and magenta.

Some OMZ themes show diverged branches by showing symbols for both ahead and behind (⇡⇣ instead of ⇕). This functionality can be supported by showing both of them if $SPACESHIP_GIT_STATUS_DIVERGED is empty.