The Comparison with HEAD message in the status bar is not actually generated by the Git plugin, but by GitGutter.
// Determines whether GitGutter will show informations in the status bar // Set "none" to hide these informations // Set "default" to show in the status bar what you are comparing // against, how many lines have been inserted or modified and how many regions // have been deleted. // Set "all" to also show on what branch you are "show_status": "default",
The default configuration is to display information from GitGutter in the status bar.
If you want to disable it, just set show_status to none , as indicated by the comments.
source share