A simple and useful prompt for bash

.bashrc

# add this to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile
#
# A simple and useful prompt for bash 
# when zsh is not an option. 
#
# - displays current directory
# - shows local git branch
# - prompt on new line
# - skips to new line after each command
#
# /-------------------------------/
# | ~/dev/project git@(master)    |
# | $ ls                          |
# | test.py                       |
# |                               |
# | ~/dev/project git@(master)    |
# | $                             |
# |                               |
# /-------------------------------/
#

export PS1="\n \\w git@(\$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep '^*' | colrm 1 2)) \n $ "