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Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) by robert-boehnke on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:22PM (#22520346)
If I had to guess, the no break space that macOS has on [alt]-[space]: " ".

EDIT: Hmm, that doesn't seem to be it, here's the commit in question https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-puppet/commit/63b36f93bf75...

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Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) by bassdigit on Sunday March 08, 2020 @05:23PM (#22520713)
It IS the no-break space. The hex UTF-8 representation of it is C2A0; you can find that sequence in original version of the file.
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