Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:17:43 -0700

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <[email-masked]> writes:

> ... On the other hand, I don't
> really wish to turn pretty format machinery into a full feature text
> layout engine (by ripping of links/lynx?).

That is very true.  We should restrain ourselves and avoid going
overboard piling shiny new toys on a not-so-useful foundation that
is not expressive enough.  One feature that is probably much more
needed on the foundation side would be some form of conditional
output, without which built-in output elements like --show-notes
cannot be emulated with --format option.