From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to use git show's "%<(<N>[,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])"?
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 18:49:15 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8B3VULFCLyRf9Poeu7UnnZggGyV05-_4LiOO6pHjA++BA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE1pOi3ThTLSp_0ZJHto4p75Ds5NMGymHrD0ju9axCqA1+NkMA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Hilco Wijbenga
<hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How do I get "2017-01-31T17:02:13 | Hilco Wijbenga" to be output?
>>
>> You'll get an ellipsis at the end though.. (i.e. 02:13... | Hilco)
>
> Indeed, that's not very nice. I suppose I can understand the reason
> for it but it mostly defeats the purpose of "trunc", doesn't it?
It depends. When you truncate a commit subject line, you may want an
indicator that you're not seeing the whole line. For fixed fields like
dates when you expect every string to be truncated, then yes there's
not much point to show the ellipsis.
--
Duy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-04 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-02 17:51 How to use git show's "%<(<N>[,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])"? Hilco Wijbenga
2017-02-03 4:19 ` G. Sylvie Davies
2017-02-03 4:32 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2017-02-03 8:06 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-02-03 17:10 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2017-02-04 11:49 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
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