From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: gitk normal use on linux repo and severe memory pressure Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 25 19:02:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QPHSi-0001ny-BC for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755147Ab1EYRBe (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 13:01:34 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:40478 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753044Ab1EYRBd (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 13:01:33 -0400 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38EE188B5A1; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A963B1C00085; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:31 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UFokZKtARr-1; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-117-194.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.117.194]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3E6BDCA29C; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: It don't mean a THING if you ain't got that SWING!! In-Reply-To: (Martin Langhoff's message of "Wed, 25 May 2011 11:20:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff writes: > I am tempted to set a global config option limiting gitk to a couple > thousand commits, but it's not really the right solution. If I am > trawling older history, I'll hit the limit and have to close gitk and > reopen overriding the parameter. You can start gitk with --max-count=N and if you need more commits you can edit the current view to increase that number. No need to restart gitk. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."