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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE <nsengiyumvawilberforce@gmail.com>,
	self <philipoakley@iee.email>
Subject: [PATCH v5 4/5] doc: pretty-formats describe use of ellipsis in truncation
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:18:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230119181827.1319-5-philipoakley@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230119181827.1319-1-philipoakley@iee.email>

Commit a7f01c6b4d (pretty: support truncating in %>, %< and %><,
2013-04-19) added the use of ellipsis when truncating placeholder
values.

Show our 'two dot' ellipsis, and examples for the left, middle and
right truncation to avoid any confusion as to which end of the string
is adjusted. (cf justification and sub-string).

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
---
 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index cbca60a196..e51f1e54e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ The placeholders are:
 '%<( <N> [,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])':: make the next placeholder take at
 				  least N column widths, padding spaces on
 				  the right if necessary.  Optionally
-				  truncate at the beginning (ltrunc),
-				  the middle (mtrunc) or the end
-				  (trunc) if the output is longer than
+				  truncate (with ellipsis '..') at the left (ltrunc) `..ft`,
+				  the middle (mtrunc) `mi..le`, or the end
+				  (trunc) `rig..`, if the output is longer than
 				  N columns.
 				  Note 1: that truncating
 				  only works correctly with N >= 2.
-- 
2.39.1.windows.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-19 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-30 18:56 [PATCH 0/1] extend the truncating pretty formats Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 18:56 ` [PATCH 1/1] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 19:23   ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-30 22:01     ` Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 23:42       ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-30 21:41 ` [PATCH 0/1] extend the truncating pretty formats Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 22:57 ` [PATCH v2 " Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 22:57   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 23:05     ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-02  0:45       ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-02 12:08         ` [PATCH v3] " Philip Oakley
2022-11-12 14:36           ` [PATCH v4] " Philip Oakley
2022-11-21  0:34             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-21 18:10               ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-22  0:57                 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-23 14:26                   ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-25  7:11                     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-26 14:32                       ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-26 22:44                         ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-26 23:19                         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-28 13:39                           ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-29  0:18                             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-12-07  0:24                           ` Philip Oakley
2022-12-07  0:54                             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-19 18:18             ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Pretty formats: Clarify column alignment Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 1/5] doc: pretty-formats: separate parameters from placeholders Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 2/5] doc: pretty-formats: delineate `%<|(` parameter values Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 3/5] doc: pretty-formats document negative column alignments Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 5/5] doc: pretty-formats note wide char limitations, and add tests Philip Oakley

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