Re: Show all branches and ahead/behind states

[Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:13:15PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>> > git for-each-ref --format '%(HEAD) %(refname:short) %(upstream:short) %(upstream:track) %(subject)' refs/heads
>>
>> Great idea. For some reason I can't apply coloring though:
>>
>> for-each-ref --format '%(HEAD) %(refname:short) %C(bold
>> blue)%(upstream:track)%C(reset)' refs/heads
>>
>> Output:
>>
>> hotfix/4.2.3.1 %C(bold blue)[ahead 1, behind 1]%C(reset)
>
> It's spelled "%C(bold blue)" in the --pretty formats, but in
> for-each-ref, it's "%(color:bold blue)". Unifying these is one of those
> things that has been on the radar for a long time, but nobody has quite
> gotten around to it.
>
> -Peff

Thanks Jeff! That definitely fixed it. I was not able to find a
reference for this in the git docs, maybe I just overlooked it
somewhere.

As a second query, is there a way to do column alignment? For example,
I would like the ahead/behind status in one column, and the branch
names left aligned in a 2nd column. I can't simply use tabs here since
the length of column 1 may differ more greatly than a single tab
character.

I imagine there is no built in way to do this, but just curious. I'd
probably end up having to write some complicated script :-(

Thanks again you've been super helpful.