configuration of string returned by fugitive#statusline() about vim-fugitive HOT 6 CLOSED

I've thought about it, but that could get really complicated really fast. Everyone has a unique and wonderful idea for what a prompt or statusline should like, and I don't want to maintain a 300 line statusline algorithm. For your needs, a one line invocation of matchstr() should do the trick.

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oh, that sounds like a better solution, so i will just play with matchstr().
Thanks :)

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this turned out to be more difficult than i thought. I keep getting error "E117: Unknown function: fugitive#statusline()". I experimented with matchstr and substitute. I tried for example:
let git_status=fugitive#statusline()
and calling matchstr/substitute here, but that did not work, because of above error.
Maybe you can point me in the right direction and say what am I missing.
I would appreciate some help. Thanks in advance.

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Sounds like you might be trying to call it before fugitive loaded? I can't think of many other causes.

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that was it - manually sourcing fugitive solved problem.

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jmatraszek: What code did you come up with to just return the branch name?

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