From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:27:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment
Message-ID: <20120925002700.GA19586@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcf517bs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 01:17:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ... On the other hand, I don't
> > really wish to turn pretty format machinery into a full feature text
> > layout engine (by ripping of links/lynx?).
> 
> That is very true.  We should restrain ourselves and avoid going
> overboard piling shiny new toys on a not-so-useful foundation that
> is not expressive enough.  One feature that is probably much more
> needed on the foundation side would be some form of conditional
> output, without which built-in output elements like --show-notes
> cannot be emulated with --format option.

The embedded lua patch series I just posted may interest (or horrify)
the both of you:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206335

-Peff