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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines
 from the commit messages
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:19:05 -0700
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Hi Paul,

Paul Menzel wrote:

> 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.

Have you tried gitk or tig?  They split the screen so you can browse
through commits, one per line, in one half and read the corresponding
commit messages and patches in the other.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan