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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.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 23:18:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130617061852.GA6942@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd2rlic2q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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 used for navigating without having to
spell out the /pattern to start by hand.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-17  6:19 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
2013-06-17  6:18     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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