[systemd-devel] [systemd-commits] src/journal

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Tue Jan 27 18:50:42 PST 2015


On Wed, 28.01.15 03:47, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:53:17AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Mon, 19.01.15 10:43, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at kemper.freedesktop.org) wrote:
> > 
> > >  src/journal/journalctl.c |   28 ++++++++++++++--------------
> > >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > New commits:
> > > commit 40f0b71b063da6a36b8d7ec75ef20103abd18243
> > > Author: Zbigniew J??drzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>
> > > Date:   Mon Jan 19 13:42:34 2015 -0500
> > > 
> > >     journalctl: trim --help to fit in 80 columns
> > >     
> > >     Terminals tend to be 80 columns wide by default, and the help
> > >     text is only supposed to be a terse reminder anyway.
> > >     
> > 
> > Hmm, maybe we should add a test target to the makefile that runs all
> > our tools with "--help" and checks that the output it generates is
> > identical to the output pssed through "fold -w 79" or so?
> > 
> > (I added this to the TODO list for now)
> 
> Done.

Hmm, your commit checks for 80 chars, right? Shouldn't we rather check
for 79? Many terminals that are 80 chars wide will leave one line free
if you output 80 consecutive chars plus one newline...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat


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