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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty: add format specifiers: %gr, %gt, %gI, gi
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:05:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CSqjTztFu1fOXqyS1jXjt=D_pgAC4MXpnECAcu+dRu2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160710142622.GE26097@thunk.org>

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> One other long-term thought.  Maybe past a certain point, we should
> just make it easy to get the data from git-log into a perl or pythons
> script, where it becomes possible to do conditionals, more flexible
> padding rules, etc.  So some kind of --format=yaml or --format=json
> sort of thing.

I thought libgit2 would already give you all the information you need.

> Some interesting ideas of how we could do this can be
> found here:
>
>         https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/topic/formats
>
> ... although I doubt whether git would ever want to do the equivalent of:
>
> gcloud compute images list  --format='table[box,title=Images](name:sort=1,family)'
>
> which will print something like this:
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------+
> |                           Images                           |
> +------------------------------------------+-----------------+
> |                   NAME                   |      FAMILY     |
> +------------------------------------------+-----------------+
> | centos-6-v20160629                       | centos-6        |
> | centos-7-v20160629                       | centos-7        |
> | coreos-alpha-1097-0-0-v20160702          | coreos-alpha    |
> | coreos-beta-1068-3-0-v20160627           | coreos-beta     |
> | coreos-stable-1010-6-0-v20160628         | coreos-stable   |
> | debian-8-jessie-v20160629                | debian-8        |
> | freebsd-101-release-amd64-20150101032704 |                 |
> | opensuse-13-2-v20160222                  |                 |
> | opensuse-leap-42-1-v20160302             |                 |
> | rhel-6-v20160629                         | rhel-6          |
> | rhel-7-v20160629                         | rhel-7          |
> | sles-11-sp4-v20160301                    |                 |
> | sles-12-sp1-v20160301                    |                 |
> | ubuntu-1204-precise-v20160627            | ubuntu-1204-lts |
> | ubuntu-1404-trusty-v20160627             | ubuntu-1404-lts |
> | ubuntu-1510-wily-v20160627               | ubuntu-1510     |
> | ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20160627             | ubuntu-1604-lts |
> | windows-server-2008-r2-dc-v20160623      | windows-2008-r2 |
> | windows-server-2012-r2-dc-v20160623      | windows-2012-r2 |
> | xfstests-201607030209                    | xfstests        |
> +------------------------------------------+-----------------+
>
> and will even use fancy graphics characters if you're using a terminal
> which supports them.  :-)

Putting everything in columns is my thing :) We can do something like
that. It should not be so hard to put titles on top and draw some
lines, I think, if you set fixed column widths. I'm just not sure if
it will be really helpful. What sort of use case do you have in mind
(besides git-log --oneline with customizable columns)?
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-10 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-10  5:54 [PATCH] pretty: add format specifiers: %gr, %gt, %gI, gi Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-10  6:16 ` Jeff King
2016-07-10 14:26   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-10 16:05     ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2016-07-10 23:28       ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11  5:02     ` Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:03       ` [PATCH 1/5] doc/rev-list-options: clarify "commit@{Nth}" for "-g" option Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:04       ` [PATCH 2/5] doc/rev-list-options: explain "-g" output formats Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:05       ` [PATCH 3/5] doc/pretty-formats: describe index/time formats for %gd Jeff King
2016-07-11 16:48         ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-12  0:08           ` Jeff King
2016-07-12  2:01             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-11  5:06       ` [PATCH 4/5] date: document and test "raw-local" mode Jeff King
2016-07-11 16:50         ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-12  0:16           ` Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:07       ` [PATCH 5/5] date: add "unix" format Jeff King
2016-07-11 16:43       ` [PATCH] pretty: add format specifiers: %gr, %gt, %gI, gi Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 19:07         ` Junio C Hamano

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