Some general reflections. Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > 2011/2/9 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>: >> I don't really care for column output myself, Me neither. I tricked myself into reading with a vague hope that it might lead to a porcelain-level "git ls" command. [...] >> But why not use the BSD column program? > > Solaris did not have one last time I checked. Windows obviously does > not either, but I don't use msysgit so it does not count. A good reason to port the "column" program, no? I admit I find this a compelling excuse not to bother with getting --column options and core.column configuration right. All that said. Patches 1, 2, and 5 replace git help's existing columnation code with something more reusable and functional. After those patches, git --paginate help -a no longer forces 80-column output. Another application of term_columns could be to teach "git log" and "git log --graph" to wrap to terminal width some day. So if I ran the world, I would put those three patches before --column et al in a possible reroll. :) Thanks for some clear and pleasant reading. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html