Re: [RFC] Porting builtin/branch.c to use the printing options of ref-filter.{c,h}

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Aug 25, 2015, 20:06 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqvbc3t9no.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4mjnyzfy.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Show 5 quoted lines

> A less ambitious option might be:
>
>   3. Invent "%(refname:<some magic>)" format similar to
>      %(refname:short) but does your thing depending on the prefix
>      refs/heads/ and refs/remotes/.

Actually, this is the option I suggest offline.

> but that will not work if the difference between local and remote
> format is not merely textual (e.g. paint them in different color).

Hmm, yes, colors would be difficult to get with this solution. Perhaps a %(refname:autoprefix,autocolor) that would pick the color and do the textual rendering?

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/