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How to Set PS1 / What's your PS1?

There is an active blogspace at this StackOverflow post about how to set PS1.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6883760/git-for-windows-bashrc-or-equivalent-configuration-files-for-git-bash-shell

The theme primarily revolves around answers to "What's your PS1?"

For the uninitiated, PS1 is the prompt in one's terminal.

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My PS1 is set in .bashrc.

export PS1='\[\]\[\]\[\033]0;$TITLEPREFIX:$PWD\007\]\[\033[32m\]\w\[\033[36m\]`__git_ps1`\[\033[0m\]$ \[\]\[\]'
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What's your PS1?! 🍸

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