Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@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'. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html