# git-column(1) Manual Page

## 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

## GIT

Part of the git(1) suite