Just a note:
this doesn't work with bash 3.2. I think they altered the way of

trimming variables in this version.
on systems with bash 3.2 installed, i get

[master!linus-2.6/vm/vm]$

with the example above.
on systems with bash 3.1, it works properly.
unfortunatelly, i am not so good in bash scripting, so it will take some

time for me to fix it.
Sincerly

Nicolas

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On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:38:02 +0100
Sorry bout that, I knew it was a bit fragile.  Was rather

comical reading Junio's recent message about all the things not

to do if you want portable shell code and noticing my 6 line script

did 90% of them ;o)  Strange though, I downloaded Bash 3.2

and gave it a try and didn't see the problem here..
Wanna try this small change, to see if it helps? :
#!/bin/bash

BR=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null) || { echo "$@" ; exit ; }

BR=${BR#refs/heads/}

REL=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)

REL="${REL%\/}"

LOC="${PWD%/$REL}"

echo "[$BR!${LOC/*\/}${REL:+/$REL}]$ "
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Maybe I should have been more explicit when I said "${paremeter##word}

and friends".  Might not have been obvious, but I only meant the

following four: %, %%, # and ##.
${parameter/pattern/string} and ${parameter//pattern/string} are

not even in POSIX.
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