The status field was not a column: "*", "↑2", "✓" and "✓ (no upstream)"
are four different widths, so everything after them started somewhere
else on every line and the eye had to hunt along each row instead of
going down one.
Each field now has its own measured column: name (with the branch
appended when it is not master/main), a one-character dirty marker, the
sync state, host and age, then the mirrors. "(no upstream)" was fifteen
columns wide for something that is not even a problem, and is now "–".
Colour weights the row rather than decorating it -- a project that is
clean and in sync goes grey, the arrows and the dirty marker keep their
colour -- and the rows needing action sort to the top, alphabetically
within each group so positions stay predictable.
padRight counted bytes, which was fine while everything it padded was
ASCII; the arrows and check marks are three bytes and one column, so it
counts runes now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The name is what the eye looks for, but it came last, behind a ragged
date column, so nothing lined up. Worse, colorRepoLine rebuilt the line
with strings.Fields and single spaces, which destroyed the alignment ls
had produced -- the output was aligned only when colour was off.
The listing line is now parsed properly instead of being split at the
size field: name, date and size come out as fields, the date is re-padded
to a fixed twelve columns so "Sep 28 2016" and "Jan 3 14:32" agree, and
the name leads in a column sized to the longest entry. Colour decorates
that layout without changing it, which a test now checks by stripping the
escapes and comparing. `list -a` shows archive sizes, which were parsed
and thrown away before.
An empty result says so instead of printing nothing, which was
indistinguishable from a failure, and the count line matches the rest of
mgsh. The pattern now filters on the repository name rather than the
whole listing line: matching the owner or the date was never intended and
`list 2016` quietly did it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mike
