From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fetch: better alignment in ref summary
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 17:58:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfut9bnff.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160522112019.26516-2-pclouds@gmail.com> ("Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy"'s message of "Sun, 22 May 2016 18:20:18 +0700")
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently fetch hard-codes the "remote" column to be 10. For repos
> with long branch names, the output could look ugly like this
>
> From github.com:pclouds/git
> * [new branch] 2nd-index -> pclouds/2nd-index
> * [new branch] 3nd-index -> pclouds/3nd-index
> * [new branch] file-watcher -> pclouds/file-watcher
> ...
So, we have to show "an object taken from their name is copied to
our name", and somebody designed the format to report it to use
"their-name -> our-name", and decided that a certain number of
columns is sufficient for "their-name" part and that attempting to
align "->" sign is a good idea..
That was long before a few best practices were established. We
encourage people to use longer and more descriptive branch names, so
"their-name" is a lot longer than 10 columns, which contradicts the
first one of two old assumptions. And we want to keep the second
old assumption alive.
Progressively pushing "->" to the right like you did might be a
cheap way to do so, but shouldn't we be also taking advantage of
another best practice that has been established since we started
reporting this "their-name came to our-name", namely, very often,
our-name is a short and fixed prefix plus their-name?
That is, I wonder if the above can become something like:
> From github.com:pclouds/git
> * [new branch] { -> pclouds/}2nd-index
> * [new branch] { -> pclouds/}3nd-index
> * [new branch] { -> pclouds/}file-watcher
> ...
The above example borrows the idea used in diffstat label for
renaming patch and I think you can design a better notataion, but a
big point is that you can shorten the whole thing by not repeating
the common part twice. The arrow aligns merely as a side effect of
the shortening, taking advantage of the fact that most people fetch
with "$their_prefix/*:$our_prefix/*" renaming refspec.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-22 11:20 [PATCH 0/2] Better ref summary alignment in "git fetch" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-05-22 11:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] fetch: better alignment in ref summary Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-05-23 0:58 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-05-23 1:59 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-05-26 14:22 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-05-26 16:29 ` Jeff King
2016-05-26 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-26 18:13 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-05-26 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-26 22:13 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-05-26 5:18 ` Jeff King
2016-06-02 13:58 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-02 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-22 11:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] fetch: reduce ref column size when there are enough short ref names Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-03 11:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Better ref summary alignment in "git fetch" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-03 11:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] git-fetch.txt: document fetch output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-03 14:33 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-06-03 16:55 ` Jeff King
2016-06-03 11:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] fetch: refactor ref update status formatting code Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-03 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-03 11:08 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-03 14:53 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-06-03 17:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-03 20:00 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-06-03 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-04 3:11 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-04 0:31 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-04 16:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-05 3:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-03 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-03 23:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-03 17:06 ` Jeff King
2016-06-03 23:52 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-04 4:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Better ref summary alignment in "git fetch" Jeff King
2016-06-03 17:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-05 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-05 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] git-fetch.txt: document fetch output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-06 14:24 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-06-05 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] fetch: refactor ref update status formatting code Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-05 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] fetch: change flag code for displaying tag update and deleted ref Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-05 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] fetch: align all "remote -> local" output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-05 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with { -> } Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-05 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with placeholder Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-26 5:58 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Better ref summary alignment in "git fetch" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-26 5:58 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] git-fetch.txt: document fetch output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-04 14:07 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-07-04 15:17 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-04 15:25 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-07-04 15:52 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-26 5:58 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] fetch: refactor ref update status formatting code Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-26 5:58 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] fetch: change flag code for displaying tag update and deleted ref Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-26 5:58 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] fetch: align all "remote -> local" output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-26 5:58 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with placeholder Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-27 4:33 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-06-27 5:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-27 15:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-27 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Better ref summary alignment in "git fetch" Jeff King
2016-06-27 19:27 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-30 16:16 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-01 6:09 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 16:03 ` [PATCH v5 " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-01 16:03 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] git-fetch.txt: document fetch output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-01 16:03 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] fetch: refactor ref update status formatting code Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-01 16:03 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] fetch: change flag code for displaying tag update and deleted ref Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-01 16:03 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] fetch: align all "remote -> local" output Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-01 16:03 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with placeholder Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-01 23:21 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Better ref summary alignment in "git fetch" Junio C Hamano
2016-07-02 4:39 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-04 13:17 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-07-04 15:08 ` Duy Nguyen
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