Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:54 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> I had to apply and then use --color-words to see what is going on. >> Please avoid unnecessary reflowing of the text that makes the patch >> harder than necessary to read. > > I was trying to keep the line length consistent. How else can I accomplish that? By relying on the fact that in the final output it does not matter how the sources look like, e.g. diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index bf5316ffa9..b64b3bf458 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ DESCRIPTION If `--list` is given, or if there are no non-option arguments, existing branches are listed; the current branch will be highlighted with an -asterisk. Option `-r` causes the remote-tracking branches to be listed, +asterisk and shown in green. Any branch checked out in linked worktrees +is shown in cyan and marked with a plus sign. Option `-r` causes the +remote-tracking branches to be listed, and option `-a` shows both local and remote branches. If a `<pattern>` is given, it is used as a shell wildcard to restrict the output to matching branches. If multiple patterns are given, a branch is shown if