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Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:17:19 +0200
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 01:10:26PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > grouping related things together, and
> > separating groups of different kind apart, to make it more readable=
=2E
>=20
> You could argue that the colors are not very well thought-out
> (branch-name has the same color as +), but I really don't see the
> problem otherwise.  How is this more readable:
>=20
>     artagnon|master *=3D:~/src/git$
>=20
> than:
>=20
>     artagnon|master*=3D:~/src/git$
>=20
> (where master is green, * is red, and =3D is white)?

IMHO that's just ugly ;)

Don't forget that others might use a different prompt format and using
colors in the prompt is optional.  With the default prompt format and
without colors I find that that space definitely helps readability.


G=E1bor