Subject: Re: bug#6195: Feature Request for "fold"

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:28:14 +0100

On 15/05/10 02:55, BJ Dierkes wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to use the 'fold' utility to make prettier output from 'git-log'.
> 
> $ git --no-pager log --oneline | fold -s

`fmt` seems to nearly do what you want,
and with a little sed you can line up correctly:

  fmt -t | sed 's/^   /        /'

I'm not against a --indent option to fold
but with the overlap between fmt,pr,fold,sed
the barrier to new options to these utils is high.

cheers,
Pádraig.