Greetings, I was reviewing the tformat parameters on: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log (middle of the page). Specifically: %<|(<N>): make the next placeholder take at least until Nth columns, padding spaces on the right if necessary I found the instructions regard space formatting to be very confusing. An example would be helpful to illustrate what the proper space formatting syntax is: Ex: git log --format="tformat:%h %<(15)%an %s" 0123456 Author Name Commit message - author name is formatted to be padded with space to occupy at least 15 characters All of the special symbols %<|(<>) made me confused to what was required and what was describing the syntax. Thank you! -daniel -- Percy Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" is also a good argument for refactoring code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias