Karthik Nayak <karthik....@gmail.com> writes: > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
