You have not seen git-prompt yet. How about forgetting that there is git-status? See http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt http://volnitsky.com/project/git-pr

You have not seen git-prompt yet. How about forgetting that there is git-status? See http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt And it will do svn, hg and a lot of other stuff.