From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:50:17 GMT
Subject: Re: inconsistent logs when displayed on screen / piped to a file
Message-ID: <1343656217.3970.5.camel@centaur.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <50168E93.2090202@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 15:39 +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> a) probes your terminal for the number of columns and uses all available
> space.
> 
> b) goes to a file and has no connected terminal, thus uses a default
> column number. You can change that number using
> 
> COLUMNS=YourNumber git log YourArgs > YourFile

You can also pass a width to --stat. See the git log manpage for details
about which widths you can override.

   cmn