Vincent Lefevre wrote on Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 00:09:09 +0100: > There's something wrong with "svn list -v" column alignment when > there are author names with more than 8 characters. For instance, > with the gcc repository: > > [...] > 279442 jozefl Dec 16 12:02 libgcc/ > 278886 jvdelisle Dec 01 23:29 libgfortran/ > [...]
As implemented, the width is initially 8 but as soon as a longer name is seen, subsequent lines will be aligned with that, up to a maximum length of 16. Do you have a better algorithm to propose?