On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > One other long-term thought. Maybe past a certain point, we should > just make it easy to get the data from git-log into a perl or pythons > script, where it becomes possible to do conditionals, more flexible > padding rules, etc. So some kind of --format=yaml or --format=json > sort of thing. I thought libgit2 would already give you all the information you need. > Some interesting ideas of how we could do this can be > found here: > > https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/topic/formats > > ... although I doubt whether git would ever want to do the equivalent of: > > gcloud compute images list --format='table[box,title=Images](name:sort=1,family)' > > which will print something like this: > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Images | > +------------------------------------------+-----------------+ > | NAME | FAMILY | > +------------------------------------------+-----------------+ > | centos-6-v20160629 | centos-6 | > | centos-7-v20160629 | centos-7 | > | coreos-alpha-1097-0-0-v20160702 | coreos-alpha | > | coreos-beta-1068-3-0-v20160627 | coreos-beta | > | coreos-stable-1010-6-0-v20160628 | coreos-stable | > | debian-8-jessie-v20160629 | debian-8 | > | freebsd-101-release-amd64-20150101032704 | | > | opensuse-13-2-v20160222 | | > | opensuse-leap-42-1-v20160302 | | > | rhel-6-v20160629 | rhel-6 | > | rhel-7-v20160629 | rhel-7 | > | sles-11-sp4-v20160301 | | > | sles-12-sp1-v20160301 | | > | ubuntu-1204-precise-v20160627 | ubuntu-1204-lts | > | ubuntu-1404-trusty-v20160627 | ubuntu-1404-lts | > | ubuntu-1510-wily-v20160627 | ubuntu-1510 | > | ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20160627 | ubuntu-1604-lts | > | windows-server-2008-r2-dc-v20160623 | windows-2008-r2 | > | windows-server-2012-r2-dc-v20160623 | windows-2012-r2 | > | xfstests-201607030209 | xfstests | > +------------------------------------------+-----------------+ > > and will even use fancy graphics characters if you're using a terminal > which supports them. :-) Putting everything in columns is my thing :) We can do something like that. It should not be so hard to put titles on top and draw some lines, I think, if you set fixed column widths. I'm just not sure if it will be really helpful. What sort of use case do you have in mind (besides git-log --oneline with customizable columns)? -- Duy -- 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