Lawrence, Oh, I always use that, (even now) my prompt is miles long. Didn't help me at all, I still messed up constantly; my brain ignores what my eyes clearly see. I need more than a clear sign post telling me where I am, I need a hammer that hits me whenever I do something wrong in the terminal :-). Barry

On May 19, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Lawrence Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:

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On 19 May 2021, at 15:38, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

I tried the multiple clone approach first but found I was constantly thinking I was in a different branch than I was in as I went between clones and messing up my working directory and getting confused and frustrated. So I developed some of my tools because I was unable to utilize my brain and working memory to work essentially at all with a multi-clone environment. If one can handle a multi-clone environment then parts of my tools are not needed.

FWIW, and this may be useful anyway, I use the prompt stuff shipped with git https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh

so that I know what branch I'm on and if the working directory is dirty etc...

I too can't remember anything...

Lawrence