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. > > 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: > > artagnon|master *=:~/src/git$ > > than: > > artagnon|master*=:~/src/git$ > > (where master is green, * is red, and = 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. Gábor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html