Is there any way of stopping Sublime Text's Git plugin messing with the status bar?
The “Comparing against HEAD” message in the status bar is actually not produced 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 show information from GitGutter in the status bar.
If you wish to disable it, simply set show_status to none, as indicated by the comments.