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Re: [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string

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NPNathan Panike <nwp@cs.wisc.edu>
Date
Dec 20, 2011, 22:50 UTC
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<20111220225014.GD21353@llunet.cs.wisc.edu>
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<87k45qriu2.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:15:01PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
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> "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
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Message 3 of 15 in “Specify a precision for the length of a subject string”
  1. Specify a precision for the length of a subject stringNathan W. Panike, Dec 20, 2011
  2. Thomas RastDec 20, 2011
  3. Nathan PanikeDec 20, 2011
  4. Jeff KingDec 21, 2011
  5. Nathan PanikeDec 21, 2011
  6. Jeff KingDec 23, 2011
  7. Jeff KingDec 23, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 23, 2011
  9. Jeff KingDec 23, 2011
  10. Jeff KingDec 23, 2011
  11. 1/2 pretty: refactor --format "magic" placeholdersJeff King, Dec 23, 2011
  12. 2/2 pretty: allow "max-size" magic for all placeholdersJeff King, Dec 23, 2011
  13. Andreas SchwabDec 21, 2011
  14. Nathan PanikeDec 21, 2011
  15. Miles BaderDec 23, 2011

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