Personally I find the Powerline set of icons for git very useful in my status line. Sometimes, I get a phone call in the middle of a git bisect or "rebase -i" a

Personally I find the Powerline set of icons for git very useful in my status line. Sometimes, I get a phone call in the middle of a git bisect or "rebase -i" and the corresponding little icon is a great reminder to run a git status when I get back to the tab.