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Re: [PATCH 1/3] for-each-ref: introduce %C(...) for color

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nov 7, 2013, 18:02 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> ... users of for-each-ref format will be _more_ familiar with
>> formats used by for-each-ref, and it would make a lot more sense to
>> keep the syntactic resemblance between existing features to show
>> magic things in for-each-ref and the new feature to show color
>> (which is merely one new "magic" to the vocabulary in the context of
>> for-each-ref), no?
>
> Okay, so what do you suggest in place of %C(...)?

If %(authordate) is "I want to see the author date here", and %(authordate:short) is "I want to see the author date here in the short form", you would expect "I want colored output in green" to be spelled as %(color:green), or something, perhaps?

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Message 9 of 15 in “Minor f-e-r enhacements”
  1. 0/3 Minor f-e-r enhacementsRamkumar Ramachandra, Oct 31, 2013
  2. 1/3 for-each-ref: introduce %C(...) for colorRamkumar Ramachandra, Oct 31, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 1, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 2, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 7, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 7, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 8, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 12, 2013
  13. 2/3 for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) asterisk markerRamkumar Ramachandra, Oct 31, 2013
  14. 3/3 for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])Ramkumar Ramachandra, Oct 31, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2013

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