From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:17:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment Message-ID: <7vvcf517bs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 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.