Re: nvcsformats not working on 5.2

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Witt wrote:
> I have noticed an issue on 5.2 which is not present on 5.0. I tested
> it on macOS Sierra (zsh installed view homebrew) and on Debian 8 (zsh
> built from source).
>
> The problem is with the vcs_info module. I set nvcsformats like
>
> zstyle ':vcs_info:*' nvcsformats "%~" ""
>
> which should make $vcs_info_msg_0_ return the current working
> directory after vcs_info is called. I do it in a similar way for
> formats like
>
> zstyle ':vcs_info:*' formats "%S" "${path_color}%r/"
>
> which works without a problem inside a git repository. Outside a git
> repository (where nvcsformats should be used) $vcs_info_msg_0_ is
> empty. This has worked (ie $vcs_info_msg_0_ was set to "%~") before
> and it is still working on that debian machine with zsh from the
> debian-repository (which is 5.0.7).
>
> Is this new or a known issue?

Yup, this is a known issue:

  http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2015/msg03258.html

That thread has the fix as well.


Regards, Frank