The alternative (and very useful) bash prompt

Almost all Linux users have used bash at some point, but how many of them know how to customize it to their liking? Here is a screenshot of one custom bash prompt I've created, which I find much better than the default (it took me a few hours to reach this point, owing mainly to my poor skills in bash scripting):

Click the image to view it properly.

So, other than showing useful stuff related to git repositories, it gives me a full line to type my command, and separates each command with a hyphenated separator and a newline, so I can see it clearly as I scroll upwards. The corresponding code snippet is (put it at the end of your ~/.bashrc if you wish to use it):

PS1='\[\033[01;34m\]\$\[\033[00m\] '

parse_git_dirty () {
    [[ $(__git_ps1) != "" ]] && [[ $(git status 2> /dev/null | tail -n1) != "nothing to commit (working directory clean)" ]] && echo "*"
}

print_pre_prompt () {
    # the first part of the prompt, i.e., the user's name
    local PS1U=$USER

    # the second part of the prompt, i.e., the present working directory
    local PS1WD="${PWD}"
    if [[ $PS1WD = "$HOME" ]]; then PS1WD=\~; fi
    if [[ $PS1WD = *"$HOME"/* ]]; then PS1WD=\~${PS1WD#$HOME}; fi

    # the fourth and last part of the prompt, i.e., the git stuff
    local git_dirty=$(parse_git_dirty)
    local git_dirty_color="\033[1;31m"
    local git_clean_color="\033[1;30m"
    if [[ $git_dirty = "*" ]]; then local git_color=$git_dirty_color; else local git_color=$git_clean_color; fi
    local PS1R=`__git_ps1 "%s"`$git_dirty

    # the third part of the prompt, i.e., the separator consisting of hyphens
    local PS1SEP=""
    while [ $(echo ${#PS1U}+${#PS1SEP}+${#PS1WD}+${#PS1R}+3 | bc) -lt $COLUMNS ]; do
        PS1SEP=$PS1SEP-
    done

    # putting it all together
    printf "\n\033[1;32m%s \033[1;34m%s \033[0;36m%s $git_color%s" "$PS1U" "$PS1WD" "$PS1SEP" "$PS1R"
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=print_pre_prompt

Rather than explaining the code (which I'm not very clear about myself), I'll point you to some links which helped me along the way:
1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt
2. http://superuser.com/questions/187455/right-align-part-of-prompt
3. https://gist.github.com/306785/4da3e39fc012475140fdf33ef0f6bc0a6e7c04a5

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