git-column (1) Linux Manual Page
git-column – Display data in columns
Synopsis
git column [–command=<name>] [–[raw-]mode=<mode>] [–width=<width>]
[–indent=<string>] [–nl=<string>] [–padding=<n>]
Description
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
–command=<name>- Look up layout mode using configuration variable column.<name> and column.ui.
–mode=<mode>
- Specify layout mode. See configuration variable column.ui for option syntax in git-config(1).
–raw-mode=<n>
- Same as –mode but take mode encoded as a number. This is mainly used by other commands that have already parsed layout mode.
–width=<width>
- Specify the terminal width. By default git column will detect the terminal width, or fall back to 80 if it is unable to do so.
–indent=<string>
- String to be printed at the beginning of each line.
–nl=<string>
- String to be printed at the end of each line, including newline character.
–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