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From: Nathan Panike <nwp@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: "Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:50:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111220225014.GD21353@llunet.cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k45qriu2.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:15:01PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
> "Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This is useful when one is working on a system where the pager is lousy.
> 
> I'm curious.  Are you saying your less does not have -S (or you do not
> even have less), or do you have a reason not to use it?
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

The reason I thought of this initially was that I have a bot reporting commits
at $dayjob in an IRC channel. Since some of my colleagues commit with long
subject lines, I thought of this as a way to control the output of the bot
(e.g., by controlling the bot's input).

Nathan Panike

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-20 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-20 22:07 [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string Nathan W. Panike
2011-12-20 22:15 ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-20 22:50   ` Nathan Panike [this message]
2011-12-21  4:38 ` Jeff King
2011-12-21 14:51   ` Nathan Panike
2011-12-23 10:09     ` Jeff King
2011-12-23 10:35       ` Jeff King
2011-12-23 20:58         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-23 23:02           ` Jeff King
2011-12-23 23:03             ` Jeff King
2011-12-23 10:35       ` [PATCH 1/2] pretty: refactor --format "magic" placeholders Jeff King
2011-12-23 10:36       ` [PATCH 2/2] pretty: allow "max-size" magic for all placeholders Jeff King
2011-12-21 11:26 ` [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string Andreas Schwab
2011-12-21 14:53   ` Nathan Panike
2011-12-23  9:41     ` Miles Bader

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