Re: Show all branches and ahead/behind states

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Show all branches and ahead/behind states
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 12:59:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150515165912.GA26853@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499Am4PFo-YRJEbQfPqtk571f4eNr_gkdy-3ATzyvBcc-jw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:25:22AM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:

> > It's spelled "%C(bold blue)" in the --pretty formats, but in
> > for-each-ref, it's "%(color:bold blue)". Unifying these is one of those
> > things that has been on the radar for a long time, but nobody has quite
> > gotten around to it.
> >
> Thanks Jeff! That definitely fixed it. I was not able to find a
> reference for this in the git docs, maybe I just overlooked it
> somewhere.

It's in "git help for-each-ref" (see the section on "FIELD NAMES").

> As a second query, is there a way to do column alignment? For example,
> I would like the ahead/behind status in one column, and the branch
> names left aligned in a 2nd column. I can't simply use tabs here since
> the length of column 1 may differ more greatly than a single tab
> character.

The "--pretty" format does have "%<" for doing printf-style alignment
(see the "PRETTY FORMATS" section of "git help log"). But "for-each-ref"
doesn't have any similar facility, as far as I know.

Again, this is something that it would be nice to fix.

-Peff