On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> How do I get "2017-01-31T17:02:13 | Hilco Wijbenga" to be output? >> >> You'll get an ellipsis at the end though.. (i.e. 02:13... | Hilco) > > Indeed, that's not very nice. I suppose I can understand the reason > for it but it mostly defeats the purpose of "trunc", doesn't it? It depends. When you truncate a commit subject line, you may want an indicator that you're not seeing the whole line. For fixed fields like dates when you expect every string to be truncated, then yes there's not much point to show the ellipsis. -- Duy