Ask HN: What scripts/cronjobs should every programmer have

Not a script perse... But this runs behind the scenes to truncate excessively long paths in the terminal and present git branch and status at a glance.

For example

    (master):~/p/s/my-app$
    (mobile-css):~/p/s/m/css$

https://gist.github.com/tbirrell/459a0c65a4dbfcfe3de4669498f...