Re: "svn list -v" column alignment issue

On 2019-12-21 08:09:46 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote on Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 00:09:09 +0100:
> > There's something wrong with "svn list -v" column alignment when
> > there are author names with more than 8 characters. For instance,
> > with the gcc repository:
> >
> > [...]
> > 279442 jozefl Dec 16 12:02 libgcc/
> > 278886 jvdelisle Dec 01 23:29 libgfortran/
> > [...]
>
> As implemented, the width is initially 8 but as soon as a longer name is seen,
> subsequent lines will be aligned with that, up to a maximum length of 16.
>
> Do you have a better algorithm to propose?

Make the minimum width configurable, or cache the maximum length name
in the working-copy data.

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