Karthik Nayak <karthik....@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Matthieu Moy > <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: >> Yes, but on the other hand we already have: >> >> git log --format='%<|(50)A very long irrevlevancy|%an|' >> >> that pads/truncate %an. So, consistancy would dictate that Karthik's >> version is the right one. > > Sorry but I didn't understand what you're trying to say here, Matthieu.
The "git log" equivalent of %(padright:N) is %<|(N), and it behaves the same way as your current implementation of %(padright) (except for the missing reset in your v5). So, if we want to be consistant with "git log", we should keep the "apply to next atom, even if it's far away in the format string" semantics. Note that consistancy is not the only criterion for choice, so I'm not saying we should absolutely do this, just that there's an argument in favor of it. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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
