A vim status line item to display git branch name and status of the currently edited file. To be put in the ~/.vimrc.

gistfile1.txt

" returns a string <branch/XX> where XX corresponds to the git status
" (for example "<master/ M>")
function CurrentGitStatus()
    let gitoutput = split(system('git status --porcelain -b '.shellescape(expand('%')).' 2>/dev/null'),'\n')
    if len(gitoutput) > 0
        let b:gitstatus = strpart(get(gitoutput,0,''),3) . '/' . strpart(get(gitoutput,1,'  '),0,2)
    else
        let b:gitstatus = ''
    endif
endfunc
autocmd BufEnter,BufWritePost * call CurrentGitStatus()
" example of use in the status line:
set stl=%f\ %(<%{b:gitstatus}>%)

Hey there,
i found your code snippet pretty useful but also, that i wont work properly for vim working directories outside of a git repository.

Example:
vim outside/git_repo/some.file
... won't display the branch even thou it's a repository.

I made two small commits to fix this.