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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Carlo Arenas" <carenas@gmail.com>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/6] built-ins: "properly" align continued usage output
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:38:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <patch-v2-4.6-4547cc968b1-20210910T153147Z-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover-v2-0.6-00000000000-20210910T153146Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Let's "fix" various "git <cmd> -h" output by "properly" aligning the
output in cases where we continue usage output after a "\n". The "fix"
and "properly" scare quotes are because this actually makes things
worse in some cases, because e.g. in the case of "git tag -h" the
"\t\t" effectively works around how parse-options.c aligns this
output.

But two wrongs don't make a right, let's "fix" this by making it worse
temporarily, in anticipation of improving parse-options.c to handle
this alignment.

The issue is that we should have whitespace corresponding to the
length of the command name here, e.g. in the case of "git ls-remote"
it should be 14 characters, or the length of ""git ls-remote
". Instead we had 21 characters in builtin/ls-remote.c, those extra 7
characters are the length of "usage: " (and also " or:"). So in the C
locale the resulting output aligns nicely:

    $ git ls-remote -h
    usage: git ls-remote [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>]
                         [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url]
                         [--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]]

But that's fragile, we might not be under the C locale. We really
should have parse-options.c itself add this padding. In a subsequent
commit I'll make it do that.

In the case of "tag" and "show-branch" and "stash save" the output was
not properly aligned, although in the "git tag" case it was
near-enough (aligned with the "-" in "git tag -l") to look good,
assuming C locale & a tab-width of 8. In any case, let's align this in
a way that looks obviously correct when looking at the source itself,
and then improve parse-options.c itself.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/ls-remote.c   | 4 ++--
 builtin/show-branch.c | 6 +++---
 builtin/stash.c       | 2 +-
 builtin/tag.c         | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/ls-remote.c b/builtin/ls-remote.c
index f4fd823af83..318949c3d75 100644
--- a/builtin/ls-remote.c
+++ b/builtin/ls-remote.c
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 
 static const char * const ls_remote_usage[] = {
 	N_("git ls-remote [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>]\n"
-	   "                     [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url]\n"
-	   "                     [--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]]"),
+	   "              [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url]\n"
+	   "              [--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]]"),
 	NULL
 };
 
diff --git a/builtin/show-branch.c b/builtin/show-branch.c
index d77ce7aeb38..a82cd1534fc 100644
--- a/builtin/show-branch.c
+++ b/builtin/show-branch.c
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 
 static const char* show_branch_usage[] = {
     N_("git show-branch [-a | --all] [-r | --remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order]\n"
-       "		[--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse]\n"
-       "		[--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]\n"
-       "		[--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics] [(<rev> | <glob>)...]"),
+       "                [--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse]\n"
+       "                [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]\n"
+       "                [--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics] [(<rev> | <glob>)...]"),
     N_("git show-branch (-g | --reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>]"),
     NULL
 };
diff --git a/builtin/stash.c b/builtin/stash.c
index 8f42360ca91..45b19007d7c 100644
--- a/builtin/stash.c
+++ b/builtin/stash.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static const char * const git_stash_push_usage[] = {
 
 static const char * const git_stash_save_usage[] = {
 	N_("git stash save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]\n"
-	   "          [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]"),
+	   "               [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]"),
 	NULL
 };
 
diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c
index 065b6bf093e..6535ed27ee9 100644
--- a/builtin/tag.c
+++ b/builtin/tag.c
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 
 static const char * const git_tag_usage[] = {
 	N_("git tag [-a | -s | -u <key-id>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>]\n"
-		"\t\t<tagname> [<head>]"),
+	   "        <tagname> [<head>]"),
 	N_("git tag -d <tagname>..."),
 	N_("git tag -l [-n[<num>]] [--contains <commit>] [--no-contains <commit>] [--points-at <object>]\n"
-		"\t\t[--format=<format>] [--merged <commit>] [--no-merged <commit>] [<pattern>...]"),
+	   "        [--format=<format>] [--merged <commit>] [--no-merged <commit>] [<pattern>...]"),
 	N_("git tag -v [--format=<format>] <tagname>..."),
 	NULL
 };
-- 
2.33.0.876.g423ac861752


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-10 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-01 11:12 [PATCH 0/2] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-01 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] built-ins: "properly" " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-01 11:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] parse-options: properly " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10  7:51   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-10 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output & related Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] test-lib.sh: add a UNIX_SOCKETS prerequisite Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] git.c: add a NEED_UNIX_SOCKETS option for built-ins Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  0:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  2:50       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  3:47         ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-11  6:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  7:16           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] parse-options: stop supporting "" in the usagestr array Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  0:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  2:46       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  6:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 15:38   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2021-09-11  0:25     ` [PATCH v2 4/6] built-ins: "properly" align continued usage output Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  2:40       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  7:41   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output & related Eric Sunshine
2021-09-11 19:08   ` [PATCH v3 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] credential-cache{,--daemon}: don't build under NO_UNIX_SOCKETS Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-12 21:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] blame: replace usage end blurb with better option spec Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-12  4:45       ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-12 22:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] parse-options: stop supporting "" in the usagestr array Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-12 22:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-13  0:21         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] built-ins: "properly" align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13     ` [PATCH v4 0/4] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 1/4] parse-options API users: align usage output in C-strings Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 2/4] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 3/4] git rev-parse --parseopt tests: add more usagestr tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 4/4] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  6:41         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-21 13:30       ` [PATCH v5 0/4] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 1/4] parse-options API users: align usage output in C-strings Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 2/4] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 3/4] git rev-parse --parseopt tests: add more usagestr tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 4/4] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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