From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-prompt.sh: strip unnecessary space in prompt string
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 21:57:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v61ynsci8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1368289513-8700-2-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> Nobody has branch names that end with + or *. Then why put a space
> after the branch name and before [*|+][=|<|>] in the prompt string?
I do not think the space is for disambiguation.
It is like asking why typeset a space after a sentence a tad wider
than a space after each word: grouping related things together, and
separating groups of different kind apart, to make it more readable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-13 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-11 16:25 [PATCH 0/2] Colored prompt for zsh Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-11 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-prompt.sh: strip unnecessary space in prompt string Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-13 4:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-05-13 7:40 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-13 9:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-05-13 10:13 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-13 11:05 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-05-13 11:11 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-05-13 13:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-13 14:21 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-11 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-prompt.zsh: introduce thin ZSH wrapper Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-11 21:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-11 22:18 ` [PATCH v2] git-prompt.sh: colorize ZSH prompt Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-11 22:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-11 22:40 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-11 23:06 ` Felipe Contreras
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