Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Column display

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2012, 00:40 UTC
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2012/2/27 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> But I am very much reluctant to see us adding a "git column" subcommand; I
> cannot justify it myself because what it does is even less connected to
> git than the "--no-index" mode of grep/diff commands, i.e. it does not
> have much to do with "Git, the version control system".
>
> Shouldn't it be "test-column" that is useful during the hacking, much like
> "test-date", "test-chmtime", and "test_credential"?

It used to be test-column. But we would need an external program to pipe through to minimize changing display code, especially when display code can get complicated (e.g. git-tag for example). The other reason is to get column display even when the command does not support it (e.g. GIT_PAGER="git column" git diff --name-status HEAD~10)

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Duy