Prompt shows all files as changed

[royteeuwen]

I have an issue that the git prompt shows every file as changed, while there are no changes, for example:

~/Development/my-project [develop|●2118…2118] 

10:39 $ git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/develop'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

[lukehunter-cs]

I had this issue as well, and I started running some of the bash functions manually, and then I discovered it was working correctly again, but I have no idea why and can't reproduce the error. The functions I ran were git_prompt_dir and updatePrompt but I don't know why those would have fixed it -- both my existing shells and brand new shells all of a sudden started working so I don't know how it could be that. I'm running bash-git-prompt 2.7.1 and git 2.24.3 fwiw

[glepretre]

We faced this issue in a project using nix shell because it modifies TMPDIR and bash-git-prompt then show changes that are not real, due to this commit: feb7f35

When TMPDIR changes, the indexes are different when there is no change in git.

Could we only use TMPDIR when /tmp does not exist?
Currently it looks the opposite to me: TMPDIR is the default and /tmp the fallback