is there any way to get the git status in a couple characters? (ie +32 -10) for a custom prompt? i tried researching but the closest i could find was git diff --shortstat, which is one line but very very long

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🌧️ candycanearter [✍️ short and simple]

2025-07-25 · 9 months ago · 👍 aRubes, argenkiwi

2 Comments ↓

👾 jecxjo · 2025-07-25 at 22:31:

Sure you can create your own command. Are you looking for just non staged changes? Save as `git-count`

#!/bin/bash

# Calculate additions and deletions from unstaged changes
git diff --numstat | awk '
  {
    added += $1;
    deleted += $2;
  }
  END {
    printf "+%d -%d\n", added, deleted;
  }
'

🌧️ candycanearter [OP, ✍️] · 2025-07-27 at 21:09:

worked great, thx!