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 This prompt is a port of the "Informative git prompt for zsh" which you can
 find [here](https://github.com/olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt)
 
-A `bash``prompt that displays information about the current git repository.
+A `bash` prompt that displays information about the current git repository.
 In particular the branch name, difference with remote branch, number of files
 staged, changed, etc.