From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:45:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-fetch: mega-terse fetch output
Message-ID: <47188AC1.9010006@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20071019073938.GN14735@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> What about this on top of Jeff's patch?
> 
> $ git fetch jc
> ...
> ==> git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
>  * tag junio-gpg-pub ......................... (new)
>  * tag v1.5.0 .......................... (tag moved)
> 
> $ git fetch me
> ...
> ==> git://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
>  * branch gitk -> spearce/gitk ............... (new)
>  * branch maint -> spearce/maint
>  * branch master -> spearce/master
>  * branch next -> spearce/next
>  * branch pu -> spearce/pu ......... (forced update)
>  * branch todo -> spearce/todo ............... (new)
> 
> The width of the terminal is computed to produce the ... padding.
> I used a very narrow terminal to produce the above so it doesn't
> linewrap badly in email.  If we cannot get the terminal width then
> we just don't produce the padding.
> 

Melikes, although using a fairly narrow padding isn't necessarily
a bad idea. I usually hate it when the output on the left is 15 chars
wide, the one on the right is 5-10 chars wide and there are 60 dots
between them. It's ugly and doesn't make it a easier to read.

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