On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 06:20:18PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
To make all "->" aligned, we may need to go through the ref list
twice, or buffer the output and let column.c align it. Either way
needs a lot more work than this.
I don't think a two-pass approach is _too_ bad. The trickiest thing is
that we handle the "prune" refs separately, even though they go in the
same status table.
However, I tried it, and the results looked much worse for my example
repo than yours. The problem is that I had one gigantic refname, and
that shoved the "->" and everything after far to the right, where they
wrapped to the next line.
Though the stair-stepping in your patch is funny, the output is easier
to read.
I do agree with Junio that we could probably improve the output quite a
bit by not showing each refname twice in the common case. I don't quite
find the "{ -> origin/}whatever" particularly pretty, but something like
that which keeps the variable bits at the end would make this problem
just go away.
-#define REFCOL_WIDTH 10
+static int REFCOL_WIDTH = 10;
This should probably go lower-case if it's not a preprocessor macro
anymore. I know it makes the diff a lot noisier, but I think it's worth
it.
-Peff