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 2.48.1 2025-01-13 GIT-COLUMN(1)