Strange character

[alexrocco]

Hi!

I followed all the steps to install and seemingly everything worked correctly, but master's branch is always showing this way. Is this correct?

Thx, Alexandre Rocco.

[magicmonty]

It seems, that you use the Git shell in Windows. The git bash in windows currently doesn't handles Unicode characters correctly, See https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Git-for-Windows-Unicode-Support All what you can do here, is to replace add a .git-prompt-colors file to your home directory and set the variables there with different markers (see git-prompt.colors.sh for examples)

[kenny-evitt]

Git Bash in Windows (now) supports Unicode characters mostly tho it seems like the fonts available in Git Bash don't support all of the characters used (by default) by bash-git-prompt. Here's what I added to my ~/.bashrc file to replace the characters unsupported by the font Consolas:

GIT_PROMPT_CONFLICTS="${Red}× "                           # the number of files in conflict
GIT_PROMPT_CHANGED="${Blue}+ "                            # the number of changed files
GIT_PROMPT_STASHED="${BoldBlue}▪ "                        # the number of stashed files/dir
GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="${BoldGreen}√"                          # a colored flag indicating a "clean" repo
GIT_PROMPT_COMMAND_OK="${Green}√"                         # indicator if the last command returned with an exit code of 0
GIT_PROMPT_COMMAND_FAIL="${Red}×-_LAST_COMMAND_STATE_"    # indicator if the last command returned with an exit code of other than 0

[kenny-evitt]

Sorry for spamming a long-closed issue, but for the sake of anyone from the future (including a version of myself), I moved the code in my last comment into ~/.git-prompt-colors.sh, as directed by the bash-git-prompt README, and wrapped it as follows (also as directed):

override_git_prompt_colors() {
  GIT_PROMPT_THEME_NAME="Custom" # needed for reload optimization, should be unique

  # Override prompt components with unsupported characters
  GIT_PROMPT_CONFLICTS="${Red}× "                           # the number of files in conflict
  GIT_PROMPT_CHANGED="${Blue}+ "                            # the number of changed files
  GIT_PROMPT_STASHED="${BoldBlue}▪ "                        # the number of stashed files/dir
  GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="${BoldGreen}√"                          # a colored flag indicating a "clean" repo
  GIT_PROMPT_COMMAND_OK="${Green}√"                         # indicator if the last command returned with an exit code of 0
  GIT_PROMPT_COMMAND_FAIL="${Red}×-_LAST_COMMAND_STATE_"    # indicator if the last command returned with an exit code of other than 0
}

# load the theme
reload_git_prompt_colors "Custom"

[magicmonty]

No problem, I am currently playing around with a more generic solution, so the we don't have to duplicate every theme for different systems

[scotlynhatt]

The font limitation shows up in the default Ubuntu shell on Windows 10 as well but I was able to see the glyph characters by simply using DejaVu Mono https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/.

[seangwright]

What @scotlynhatt means is download the font on windows, install it and then select it from the font menu for the WSL window (right click on the title bar -> properties -> font).

[fastzombies]

FWIW anyone on a system that has missing or mis-mapped unicode with no hope of changing it, I put this in my ~/.git-prompt-colors.sh (thanks @kenny-evitt for the tip):

override_git_prompt_colors() {
  GIT_PROMPT_THEME_NAME="Custom" # needed for reload optimization, should be unique

  # Override prompt components with unsupported characters
  GIT_PROMPT_CONFLICTS="${Red}× "                           # the number of files in conflict
  GIT_PROMPT_CHANGED="${Blue}+ "                            # the number of changed files
  GIT_PROMPT_STASHED="${BoldBlue}s "                        # the number of stashed files/dir
  GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="${BoldGreen}c"                          # a colored flag indicating a "clean" repo
  GIT_PROMPT_COMMAND_OK="${Green}ok"                         # indicator if the last command returned with an exit code of 0
  GIT_PROMPT_COMMAND_FAIL="${Red}×-_LAST_COMMAND_STATE_"    # indicator if the last command returned with an exit code of other than 0
}

# load the theme
reload_git_prompt_colors "Custom"

[JeffMill]

In addition to adding that to ~/.git-prompt-colors.sh I also had to add

GIT_PROMPT_THEME="Custom"

to my ~/.bashrc -- the documentation here says to use GIT_PROMPT_THEME_NAME, but that didn't work for me.