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From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:07:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371319623.9845.34.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)

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Dear git folks,


there are people out there disliking elaborate commit messages, as going
over `git log` is tedious as you have to scroll a lot. As I do not like
the suggestion to make commit messages shorter by omitting certain
details, a way to limit the number displayed lines of the commit
messages would be nice to have.

The switch `--format=oneline` exists already. Unfortunately a lot of
commits do not have a informative enough summary, so the first lines of
the commit message are still needed/desired to understand the commit
more.

Could a switch be added, like `--commit-message-lines` (sorry for not
coming up with something better) to limit the number of displayed lines?
That would be great!

For older git versions, do you know of editor/pager options to achieve
this?


Thanks,

Paul

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             reply	other threads:[~2013-06-15 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-15 18:07 Paul Menzel [this message]
2013-06-15 19:19 ` git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-17  4:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-17  6:18     ` Jonathan Nieder

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