Adding upstream version 0.16.6.1.upstream/0.16.6.1

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -333,8 +333,18 @@ For example, the default setting corresponds to
 branch,commit_msg,commit_time
 ```
 
-Here `branch` includes both branch name and status. To get the branch name alone, use `branch_name`.
+Here `branch` includes both branch name and status.
+The status symbols are similar to the ones used in [spaceship-prompt](https://spaceship-prompt.sh/sections/git/#Git-status-git_status).
 
+To customize these symbols, add a file in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gita/symbols.csv`.
+The default settings corresponds to
+
+```csv
+dirty,staged,untracked,local_ahead,remote_ahead,diverged,in_sync,no_remote
+*,+,?,↑,↓,⇕,,∅
+```
+Only the symbols to be overridden need to be defined.
+You can search unicode symbols [here](https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/).
 
 ### customize git command flags