From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:18:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages
Message-ID: <20130617061852.GA6942@elie.Belkin>
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.