From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 14:21:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-prompt.sh: strip unnecessary space in prompt string
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> If you restructure the code to formulate "gitstring" to call a shell
> function to do so, people can override it and come up with whatever
> format they want to use, no?

The user would essentially have to implement her own
__git_ps1_colorize_string; a function that takes a lot of arguments
and stitches them together with color.  Much too painful for little
gain.