All the cool kids these days like to have the current Git branch as their command-line prompt. Call me old fashioned, but I like to know my current directory as well. As showing the full path can get ridiculous, I just want the directory name.

This is what I ended up with in my .profile:

export PS1=\
'$(echo $PWD| sed s/.*\\\///) \
$(git branch &>/dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ];\
 then echo "(\[\033[00m\]$(git branch | grep ^*|sed s/\*\ //)) ";\
 fi)\$\[\033[00m\] '

(The Git part was copied from the Internet somewhere – I forget where.).

This is what it looks like: