git-column(1) Git Manual git-column(1)
NAME
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
CONFIGURATION
Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from
the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what's
found there:
column.ui
Specify whether supported commands should output in columns. This
variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces or
commas:
These options control when the feature should be enabled (defaults
to never):
always
always show in columns
never
never show in columns
auto
show in columns if the output is to the terminal
These options control layout (defaults to column). Setting any of
these implies always if none of always, never, or auto are
specified.
column
fill columns before rows
row
fill rows before columns
plain
show in one column
Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option
(defaults to nodense):
dense
make unequal size columns to utilize more space
nodense
make equal size columns
column.branch
Specify whether to output branch listing in git branch in columns.
See column.ui for details.
column.clean
Specify the layout when listing items in git clean -i, which always
shows files and directories in columns. See column.ui for details.
column.status
Specify whether to output untracked files in git status in columns.
See column.ui for details.
column.tag
Specify whether to output tag listings in git tag in columns. See
column.ui for details.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 2.43.0 2023-11-20 git-column(1)
git 2.43.0 - Generated Sat Nov 25 13:15:07 CST 2023