From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:41:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] ref-filter: add option to pad atoms to the right
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQ4PmKc0J1_X2vxn+yJ=pVd5AjM3j7j15T8ojrTPsEY_Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1437982035-6658-3-git-send-email-Karthik.188@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
> Add a new atom "padright" and support %(padright:X) where X is a
> number.  This will align the succeeding atom value to the left
> followed by spaces for a total length of X characters. If X is less
> than the item size, the entire atom value is printed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
> index e49d578..45dd7f8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
> @@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ color::
>         Change output color.  Followed by `:<colorname>`, where names
>         are described in `color.branch.*`.
>
> +padright::
> +       Pad succeeding atom to the right. Followed by `:<value>`,
> +       where `value` states the total length of atom including the
> +       padding. If the `value` is greater than the atom length, then
> +       no padding is performed.

Isn't this backward? Don't you mean

    ... If the atom length is greater than `value`, then
    no padding is performed.

?