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| author | Frederick Eaton <frederik@ofb.net> | 2018-09-19 13:12:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-09-21 09:32:15 -0700 |
| commit | 6271d94769c4db0a2938761d255a438289561639 (patch) | |
| tree | 577a0615ca1b5b726891171d11b7ddad67b29522 /Documentation/git-column.txt | |
| parent | c2632796aa9b042cd6e8c5bbe27c258436dba463 (diff) | |
| download | git-6271d94769c4db0a2938761d255a438289561639.tar.gz | |
git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples
When I read this man page I couldn't figure out what kind of input it
was referring to, or how input was being put into columns, or where I
should look for the syntax of the --mode option.
Signed-off-by: Frederick Eaton <frederik@ofb.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-column.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-column.txt | 35 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-column.txt b/Documentation/git-column.txt index 03d18465d4..763afabb6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-column.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-column.txt @@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This command formats its input into multiple columns. +This command formats the lines of its standard input into a table with +multiple columns. Each input line occupies one cell of the table. It +is used internally by other git commands to format output into +columns. OPTIONS ------- @@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS --mode=<mode>:: Specify layout mode. See configuration variable column.ui for option - syntax. + syntax in linkgit:git-config[1]. --raw-mode=<n>:: Same as --mode but take mode encoded as a number. This is mainly used @@ -43,6 +46,34 @@ OPTIONS --padding=<N>:: The number of spaces between columns. One space by default. +EXAMPLES +------ + +Format data by columns: +------------ +$ seq 1 24 | git column --mode=column --padding=5 +1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 +2 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 +3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 +------------ + +Format data by rows: +------------ +$ seq 1 21 | git column --mode=row --padding=5 +1 2 3 4 5 6 7 +8 9 10 11 12 13 14 +15 16 17 18 19 20 21 +------------ + +List some tags in a table with unequal column widths: +------------ +$ git tag --list 'v2.4.*' --column=row,dense +v2.4.0 v2.4.0-rc0 v2.4.0-rc1 v2.4.0-rc2 v2.4.0-rc3 +v2.4.1 v2.4.10 v2.4.11 v2.4.12 v2.4.2 +v2.4.3 v2.4.4 v2.4.5 v2.4.6 v2.4.7 +v2.4.8 v2.4.9 +------------ + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |