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Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/9] ref-filter: add %(refname:lalignX) option

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jun 28, 2015, 07:39 UTC
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Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
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> Add support for %(refname:lalignX) where X is a number.
> This will print a shortened refname aligned to the left
> followed by spaces for a total length of X characters.
> If X is less than the shortened refname size, the entire
> shortened refname is printed.

Why would we even want this kind of thing in the first place? Is this to make it possible to re-implement some option that exists already in 'git branch' or 'git tag' as a thin wrapper on top of this underlying feature?

As a low-level plumbing, I'd rather not to see such an elaborate formatting option added to for-each-ref; after all, the design of the command to allow its output properly script-quoted is so that we can offload such non-essential (meaning: does not need anything only Git knows; computing the display width of a string and filling the output space is an example. As opposed to something like --merged that needs help from Git, which has the ultimate knowledge on the topology) processing to Porcelain that uses the command as plumbing.

Previous: Duy NguyenNext: Karthik Nayak
Message 21 of 23 in “port tag.c to use ref-filter library”
  1. 0/9 port tag.c to use ref-filter libraryKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  2. 1/9 ref-filter: add %(refname:lalignX) optionKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  3. 2/9 ref-filter: add option to filter only tagsKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  4. 3/9 ref-filter: support printing N lines from tag annotationKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  5. 4/9 ref-filter: add support to sort by versionKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  6. Duy NguyenJul 12, 2015
  7. Karthik NayakJul 12, 2015
  8. 5/9 ref-filter: add option to match literal patternKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  9. Karthik NayakJun 26, 2015
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2015
  11. Karthik NayakJun 30, 2015
  12. 6/9 tag.c: use 'ref-filter' data structuresKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  13. 7/9 tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIsKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  14. 8/9 tag.c: implement '--format' optionKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  15. 8/9 tag.c: implement '--format' optionKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  16. 9/9 tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' optionsKarthik Nayak, Jun 25, 2015
  17. Christian CouderJun 27, 2015
  18. Christian CouderJun 28, 2015
  19. Karthik NayakJun 28, 2015
  20. Duy NguyenJun 27, 2015
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2015
  22. Karthik NayakJun 28, 2015
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2015

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