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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-prompt.sh: strip unnecessary space in prompt string
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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.