From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:41:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd2rlic2q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130615191905.GA3363@elie.Belkin> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:19:05 -0700")
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
Or inside "less" that is spawned by "git log -p", I often say this:
/^commit .*|^diff --git .*<ENTER>
and navigate with 'n' and 'p'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-15 18:07 git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages Paul Menzel
2013-06-15 19:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-17 4:41 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-06-17 6:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
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