Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] ref-filter: add option to pad atoms to the right

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:56:24 -0700

Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yes, but on the other hand we already have:
>
>   git log --format='%<|(50)A very long irrevlevancy|%an|'
>
> that pads/truncate %an. So, consistancy would dictate that Karthik's
> version is the right one.

Interesting.  Although that %<(50) looks simply a bug to me which we
may want to fix.

I wonder if there is a good reason why the above should not be
spelled as --format="A very long irrelevancy%<(50)%an".