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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Column output
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:47:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110208224745.GA14190@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297178541-31124-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:22:14PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> In short, the series is very simple: give porcelain commands column
> output, just like good old "ls". There could be a few more candidates,
> I believe René Scharfe mentioned other files in "git status".

I don't really care for column output myself, so maybe you have a good
reason why my idea won't work. But why not use the BSD column program?
I.e.:

  git config pager.tag column
  git config pager.branch column

True it will use "column" no matter whether the specific branch or tag
operation produces a lot of output or not, but in general that should be
OK. Most "action" commands like "tag -d" or "branch new old" just
produce one line of output and look fine piped through column.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-08 15:22 [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Column output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-08 15:22 ` [PATCH 1/7] Move term_columns() to pager.c and save terminal width before pager Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-09  5:14   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-08 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add column layout Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-09  7:36   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-09 11:24     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-08 15:22 ` [PATCH 3/7] parseopt: OPT_COLUMN to set struct column_layout.mode Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-08 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/7] add core.column Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-08 15:22 ` [PATCH 5/7] help: reuse struct column_layout Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-09  7:39   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-09 11:21     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-08 15:22 ` [PATCH 6/7] tag: support column output with --column Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-09 21:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-10  2:35     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-10  2:54       ` Miles Bader
2011-02-08 15:22 ` [PATCH 7/7] branch: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-08 22:47 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-02-09  0:13   ` [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Column output Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-09  5:42     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-09  5:59       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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