Git: what does the “[master $=]” on the terminal mean?

Question

On my terminal, it either has

username@username ~/release[master=]

or

username@username ~/release[master $=]

What's the difference?

Answer 1

If this is using the contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh , then:

• " $ " means git stash is not empty (you have content stashed, and $GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE is defined)
• " = " means git remote -v is not empty (you have a remote defined) and your branch is equals to its remote tracking branch (no commits ahead or behind), and $GIT_PS1_SHOWUPSTREAM is set to verbose .