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I only switch branches manually too, but I work in many repos and come back to stuff after days sometimes.

Even if I know my current branch, having my prompt show me untracked/uncommitted/unpushed changes helps to identify if something didn’t work because I’m in a dirty state, or if something I ran (unexpectedly) caused a dirty state.

For example, I don’t expect running scripts/build.sh to modify tracked files in the repo. Seeing part of the prompt go from “” to “?2!3” (two untracked, three changed files) makes that glaringly obvious.

"git status" is all you need then.

Then you have to remember to run this regularly. Which i regularly forget in tmux autopilot mode. The prompt serves as one last headsup reminder. Even then sometimes I dont look at it and have to roll some stuff back

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