[PATCH v5 03/11] ref-filter: add option to pad atoms to the right

@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ color::
 	Change output color.  Followed by `:<colorname>`, where names
 	are described in `color.branch.*`.
 
+padright::
+	Pad succeeding atom to the right. Followed by `:<value>`,
+	where `value` states the total length of atom including the
+	padding. If the `value` is greater than the atom length, then
+	no padding is performed.
+
 In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
 field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
 be used to specify the value in the header field.

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ static struct {
 	{ "flag" },
 	{ "HEAD" },
 	{ "color" },
+	{ "padright" },
 };
 
 /*

@@ -691,6 +692,18 @@ static void populate_value(struct ref_array_item *ref)
 			else
 				v->s = " ";
 			continue;
+		} else if (starts_with(name, "padright:")) {
+			const char *valp = NULL;
+
+			skip_prefix(name, "padright:", &valp);
+			if (!valp[0])
+				die(_("no value given with 'padright:'"));
+			if (strtoul_ui(valp, 10, (unsigned int *)&v->ul))
+				die(_("positive integer expected after ':' in padright:%u\n"),
+				    (unsigned int)v->ul);
+			v->pseudo_atom = 1;
+			v->pad_to_right = 1;
+			continue;
 		} else
 			continue;
 

@@ -1202,6 +1215,15 @@ static void ref_formatting(struct ref_formatting_state *state,
 		free(state->color);
 		state->color = NULL;
 	}
+	if (state->pad_to_right) {
+		if (!is_utf8(v->s))
+			strbuf_addf(value, "%-*s", state->pad_to_right, v->s);
+		else {
+			int utf8_compensation = strlen(v->s) - utf8_strwidth(v->s);
+			strbuf_addf(value, "%-*s", state->pad_to_right + utf8_compensation, v->s);
+		}
+		return;
+	}
 	strbuf_addf(value, "%s", v->s);
 }
 

@@ -1278,6 +1300,8 @@ static void apply_pseudo_state(struct ref_formatting_state *state,
 {
 	if (v->color)
 		state->color = (char *)v->s;
+	if (v->pad_to_right)
+		state->pad_to_right = v->ul;
 }
 
 void show_ref_array_item(struct ref_array_item *info, const char *format, int quote_style)

@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ struct atom_value {
 	const char *s;
 	unsigned long ul; /* used for sorting when not FIELD_STR */
 	unsigned int pseudo_atom : 1, /*  atoms which aren't placeholders for ref attributes */
-		color : 1;
+		color : 1,
+		pad_to_right : 1;
 };
 
 struct ref_formatting_state {
 	int quote_style;
 	char *color;
+	unsigned int pad_to_right;
 };
 
 struct ref_sorting {

@@ -81,4 +81,20 @@ test_expect_success 'filtering with --contains' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'padding to the right using `padright`' '
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	refs/heads/master        |
+	refs/heads/side          |
+	refs/odd/spot            |
+	refs/tags/double-tag     |
+	refs/tags/four           |
+	refs/tags/one            |
+	refs/tags/signed-tag     |
+	refs/tags/three          |
+	refs/tags/two            |
+	EOF
+	git for-each-ref --format="%(padright:25)%(refname)|" >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done