Re: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: Or inside less that is spawned by git log -p, I often say this: /^commit .*|^diff --git .*ENTER and navigate with 'n' and 'p'. Hm, that implies an interesting trick. If I run LESS='FRSX +/^commit |^diff --git ' git log -p then 'n' and shift+'n' can be

Re: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages

2013-06-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
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

git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages

2013-06-15 Thread Paul Menzel
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

Re: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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