Comments on: OS X Git Prompt

By: shaun

shaun — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:47:10 +0000

Hahahaa! Gotta hate it when that happens!

I seem to remember that I changed the formatting in order to prevent similar errors – it's possible that the script contains strange (hidden) characters. I found that by stripping out a bunch of white-space (and possibly more) I managed to get it to work, but I left it at that.

By: alecmce

alecmce — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:40:58 +0000

It happens if you haven't installed git yet. :-S

By: alecmce

alecmce — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:30:46 +0000

Shaun, I'm in the process of setting up a new machine, and was doing all this again. This time I had few problems with the .profile, if I used ~/.bash_profile instead. Anyway, I did have problems with the script however:

-bash: eval: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `||'
-bash: eval: line 9: `|| return'

coming from line 60 of git-prompt.sh. Now that's doubly weird because I checked the original source on volnitsky.com, and the only difference as far as I can see is that you've tweaked the formatting. I don't understand why this should throw errors for me, but not for anyone else?!

Any pointers would be appreciated. If not, I'll keep looking. Cheers.

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git on the command line « Ramblings — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:07:57 +0000

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By: Hays

Hays — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:08:34 +0000

Awesome. This rocks.

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:10:56 +0000

Hmm.. I'm sorry to hear that you had trouble with it. I'm pretty new to all this myself. My Terminal is still set to /usr/bin/login. It might have something to do with how git is installed: port vs installer vs manually compiling it. Also, I should definitely have mentioned that you need to start a new Terminal session after editing the .profile!

By: alecmce

alecmce — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:40 +0000

Hi Shaun,

Thanks for this. I had quite a few problems getting it to work for me, which was frustrating. In the end I went into my Terminal/preferences/startup and switched the "Shell opens with" from /usr/bin/login to /bin/bash. Then I saved my .profile file (with modifications as above) to .bash_profile. Finally, on restarting my terminal, it worked.

I've never mucked around with bash so I was pretty much in the dark, and getting it to work is dumb luck.

In any event, thank you for introducing me to the GIT Prompt project; this is going to come in very handy!