From 80d506b338e9618557c8eb45f08e3d4d1887d23f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Duckles <tony@nynim.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:34:18 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] bin/git-branch-dates: Smarter automatic line truncation

---
 bin/git-branch-dates | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/git-branch-dates b/bin/git-branch-dates
index a33fa00..9b2bb9a 100755
--- a/bin/git-branch-dates
+++ b/bin/git-branch-dates
@@ -10,8 +10,17 @@ if [[ "$1" = "-v" || "$1" = "-vv" ]]; then
     shift
     format="$format"'|%(color:yellow)%(objectname:short)%(color:reset) %(contents:subject)'
 fi
+
+# For the `cut`-based line truncation handling below, since `cut` works based
+# on chars/bytes and since the `git branch` will contain SGR escape sequences
+# for coloring, predict how many "extra" bytes will be in each line due to the
+# coloring in the `format` defined above.
+extra_color_len=26
+
 git branch \
     --color=always \
     --sort=-committerdate \
     --format="$format" \
-    $* | column -ts'|'
+    $* \
+    | column -ts'|' \
+    | cut -c 1-$(expr $(tput cols) + $extra_color_len)
-- 
2.43.0