On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
artag...@gmail.com wrote:
You can now do something like
$ git for-each-ref --format='%C(red)%(refname:short)%C(reset)
%C(blue)%(upstream:diff)%C(reset)' --count 5 --sort='-committerdate'
refs/heads
To get output that's much more customizable 'git branch' output. Future
patches will attempt unify the semantics of 'git branch' and 'git
for-each-ref'.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com
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So my evil plan is to keep extending this format until it's on par
with pretty-formats. Then, we can move towards unifying 'git branch'
and 'git for-each-ref'. This will involve deprecating badly
thought-out options like '-v', and replacing it with the more
powerful '--format'.
I just have one major doubt: in the above output, how do I align all
the upstream branches to the same column? How can I achieve it with
pretty-formats? Something like %*d? But * is already taken to mean
deref in for-each-ref's --format.
By the way, the main motivation for all this comes from the fact that
git for-each-ref is very nicely written :) Look at how it breaks
everything up into atoms and lazily gets the information it needs to
display.
If you can put energy into this, I suggest you improve pretty.c a bit,
adding new format_ref_message(), similar to format_commit_message(),
except that it takes a ref. You can extend struct
format_commit_context to contain what struct refinfo does. I think
pretty.c only lacks a few specifiers that for-each-ref has. I think I
mentioned it in my for-each-ref series already, but we need to think
how to specify align to the left with the best width and how
format_ref_message() can figure the width out. A callback function
might do.
--
Duy
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