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Meradyesterday at 9:43 PM1 replyview on HN

I've been coding for 20 years, I very much like having git info in the prompt. Even if it doesn't tell me everything (and it often doesn't) it _is_ a reminder that I have uncommitted changes, or haven't pushed yet, or a stash that I might have forgotten about.

I played with Starship for an hour this morning - the joys of 50 person planning meetings - but ultimately uninstalled it. I did like some of its options like command timing and success/error, but all the tool versions ultimately just felt like noise. Not worth the effort to maintain a complex custom config to trim it down to what I'd want.


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wocramtoday at 2:26 AM

Choosing which segments to show is the main the to configure. It's even one of the preset example to hide versions: https://starship.rs/presets/no-runtimes

I agree there's a lot of noise that seems to be there by default.