agnoster: speed up git prompt
Problem On detached-refs, the git prompt is very slow because it uses a command to output all refs, which takes 32s on the twitter internal git repo. Solution Use git-rev-parse instead of git-show-ref to only output the head ref. Runtime drops to 0.03 seconds. Note Interestingly, git-rev-parse isn't slow without the --head arguement so I'll probably be cooking up a patch for the git team to speed this up eventually, but it's still pointless to sigpipe git as it walks the filesystem.
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