prompt does not actualise on directory change

[Steve]

I try to add on "/usr/share/byobu/profiles/bashrc" some git info to the prompt by add the folloing:
...
               byobu_git_branch() {
                       git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
               }
...
PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\e[38;5;202m\]\$(byobu_prompt_status)\[\e[38;5;245m\]\u\[\e[00m\]@\[\e[38;5;172m\]\h\[\e[00m\]:\[\e[38;5;5m\]\w\[\033[01;31m\]$(byobu_git_branch)\[\e[00m\]\$(byobu_prompt_symbol) "
...
It is working if I "byobu-disable-prompt" and "byobu-enable-prompt" inside a git directory, but if I move outside ("cd .."), I still get the branch info. :-(

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Steve,

Hopefully you already figured this out. You just need to escape your $. Look at how byobu_prompt_symbol is called: "\$(byobu_prompt_symbol) "

Putting your string into my config let me reproduce your issue. Then when I changed it to this:

PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\e[38;5;202m\]\$(byobu_prompt_status)\[\e[38;5;245m\]\u\[\e[00m\]@\[\e[38;5;172m\]\h\[\e[00m\]:\[\e[38;5;5m\]\w\[\033[01;31m\]\$(byobu_git_branch)\[\e[00m\]\$(byobu_prompt_symbol) "

it started behaving correctly:

bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu$ cd byobu/
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu/byobu(master)$ ls
Applications/ autogen.sh* CONTRIBUTING debian/ experimental/ NEWS README usr/
AUTHORS configure.ac COPYING etc/ Makefile.am po/ snap/
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu/byobu(master)$ git branch
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu/byobu(master)$ git checkout foobar
Switched to branch 'foobar'
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu/byobu(foobar)$ cd ..
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu$ pushd .
~/ubuntu/Byobu ~/ubuntu/Byobu
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu$ cd byobu/
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu/byobu(foobar)$ ls
Applications/ autogen.sh* CONTRIBUTING debian/ experimental/ NEWS README usr/
AUTHORS configure.ac COPYING etc/ Makefile.am po/ snap/
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu/byobu(foobar)$ cd etc
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu/byobu/etc(foobar)$ popd
~/ubuntu/Byobu
bryce@trent:~/ubuntu/Byobu$