On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 04:07:54PM -0600, Nathan W. Panike wrote: > We can specify the precision of a subject string, so that length the subjects > viewed by the user do not grow beyond a bound set by the user, in a pretty > formatted string > > This makes it possible to do, e.g., > > $ git log --pretty='%h %s' d165204 -1 > d165204 git-p4: fix skipSubmitEdit regression > > With this patch, the user can do > > $ git log --pretty='%h %30s' d165204 -1 > d165204 git-p4: fix skipSubmitEdit reg Hmm. I think the idea of limiting is OK (though personally, I would just pipe through a filter that truncates long lines). But I'm a bit negative on adding a tweak like this that only affects the subject. Is there a reason I couldn't do %30gs, or %30f, or even some other placeholder? Also, we already have %w to handle wrapping. Could this be handled in a similar way (perhaps it could even be considered a special form of wrapping)? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html