Re: "svn list -v" column alignment issue

On 2019-12-23 03:21:09 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.

Or wait for a fraction of second, say 0.1 s, after the first data
are available, and compute the width based on these initial data.
In most cases (e.g. when -R is not used), these data will actually
be complete, so that the output will be correct.

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