shejialuo <shejialuo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:39:36PM +0000, Wang Bing-hua via GitGitGadget wrote: >> From: Wang Bing-hua <louiswpf@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> Remote names exceeding a tab width could cause misalignment. If all of them are named with ten ASCII characters, on a terminal with fixed-width font, things will still display aligned ;-) >> Align --verbose output with spaces instead of a tab. >> > > Good enhancement. With a Devil's advocate hat on, a change like this will completely break tools when they are reading the "--verbose" output and expecting that the fields are separated with a TAB (in other words, the tab is *not* about alignment in the first place for them). Now with that hat off. For users with that many remotes where the alignment of URLs in the interactive "git remote -v" output matter, I am not sure if this change is a real improvement enough that it is worth the possible risk of breaking existing tools. With that many remotes defined, wouldn't they be doing "git remote -v" piped to "grep '^name<TAB>'" or something? That use case would break with the change, too. Thanks.
