From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 04:57:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-prompt.sh: strip unnecessary space in prompt string
Message-ID: <7v61ynsci8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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.