I can't seem to get my prompt to work

[Bobby Johnson (NotMyself)]

I installed the latest stuff from the git repo and I think I have it
all wired up correctly. But my prompt looks like this:

D:\Dev\Work\OATS []> git status
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
# (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working
directory)
#
# modified: .gitignore
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
D:\Dev\Work\OATS []>

obviously, I can use git and the prompt is "working". it's just not
showing anything.

Anyone have hints or ideas?

[Bobby Johnson]

It looks like I may have the wrong version of MSysGit installed. For example "git status --short --branch 2" errors in the command prompt.

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[Jeremy Skinner]

The --branch option is only available from 1.7.1 onwards - there's a beta for this available on the msysgit site. 

If you don't want to install 1.7.1, then you'll instead need to use the posh-git 0.2 release from http://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/zipball/v0.2

Jeremy

[Bobby Johnson]

AHA! I knew I was on to something... 8) Thank you Mr. Skinner.