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From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:04:46 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZQjYi=PAddDnFNd-Q3+C43O9ELDqXgynF0kya9SJbPagg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DRYGSoiyPRi3hCD54NA1TF2mr5+9xwReX333ppdoAg+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What I was thinking of was getting rid of the whole "align" feature where
>> you provide a value to which it would align.
>>
>> Something like:  --format="%(item:modifieralign)" which would use something
>> on the lines of what the max-width calculator in branch -l uses, to get the max
>> alignment size. But the problem is that ref-filter goes through the refs using
>> a function which has no connections with the atoms used. So a more practical
>> solution would be --format="%(item:modifieralign=X)" where we could provide a
>> means of calculating X via ref-filter. Something like this in tag.c:
>>
>> int max_width = get_max_width("<item to get max_width of>");
>> use this max_width to then do a
>> --format="%(item:modifieralign=X)", where X = max_width
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> This is where separate "alignment atoms" (instead of alignment
> modifiers) make sense. Suppose you introduce another function, let's
> say print_all() for now, to wrap the "for (i < maxcount)" loop at the
> end of for-each-ref, you would have total control over display and
> formatting. populate_value() generates empty strings for these
> alignment atoms (because they don't really have true values). Those
> alignment atoms are recognized in print_all() and
> show_ref_array_item(). In print_all(), if it sees max width needs to
> be calculated (because the user does not specify the width), it can
> call populate_value() for an atom for all rows. show_ref_array_item()
> does the padding and even truncating if needed. This pattern is
> similar to how print_columns() works, first we collect data of the
> whole "table", then we place them line by line.
>
> It sounds good to me. But it may not be the best option, I don't know.
> And it may create unnecessary work. So you and your mentors decide.
> --
> Duy

Sounds good, but what you're saying goes on the lines of interdependence of
atoms, since we would have separate atoms. Not sure we want to do that right
now.

-- 
Regards,
Karthik Nayak

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-09 10:27 [PATCH v2 00/10] Port tag.c to use ref-filter APIs Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] ref-filter: add %(refname:shortalign=X) option Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:27   ` [PATCH v2 02/10] ref-filter: add option to filter only tags Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:27   ` [PATCH v2 03/10] ref-filter: support printing N lines from tag annotation Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 13:07     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-10 10:38       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:27   ` [PATCH v2 04/10] ref-filter: add support to sort by version Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 13:29     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-10 10:52       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-10 11:01         ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-10 12:18           ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-11  5:54             ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:27   ` [PATCH v2 05/10] ref-filter: add option to match literal pattern Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 13:32     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-10 11:11       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-10 16:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-11  5:55       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-11  9:26         ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-11 12:54           ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:27   ` [PATCH v2 06/10] Documentation/tag: remove double occurance of "<pattern>" Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 12:19     ` Christian Couder
2015-07-09 12:56       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-10 16:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-12 12:39         ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:27   ` [PATCH v2 07/10] tag.c: use 'ref-filter' data structures Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 10:55   ` [PATCH v2 08/10] tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 12:48     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-09 12:55       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 13:43         ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-10  9:41           ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 13:41     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-09 10:58   ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-12  9:45     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-12 19:36       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-13 10:46         ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-13 20:34           ` Karthik Nayak [this message]
2015-07-09 10:59   ` [PATCH v2 09/10] tag.c: implement '--format' option Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 11:00   ` [PATCH v2 10/10] tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' options Karthik Nayak
2015-07-09 12:58   ` [PATCH v2 01/10] ref-filter: add %(refname:shortalign=X) option Matthieu Moy
2015-07-11  6:07     ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-11 10:20       ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-10 16:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-11 12:05     ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-12  1:47       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-12  8:59         ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-12 19:56           ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-13 10:51             ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-13 20:36               ` Karthik Nayak

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