From 307d464835a65b410d746c95e3536f9a32a00578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Helmut K. C. Tessarek" <tessarek@evermeet.cx>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:26:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #277, substring expression < 0 issue for older bash
 versions

---
 gitstatus.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitstatus.sh b/gitstatus.sh
index 6d7db3c..19e3dee 100755
--- a/gitstatus.sh
+++ b/gitstatus.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
       \ ) ;;
       *) ((num_staged++)) ;;
     esac
-    status=${status:0:-1}
+    status=${status:0:(${#status}-1)}
   done
 done <<< "$gitstatus"