From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:07:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v0 0/2] git-less: a specialized pager for git-log
Message-ID: <4F6C4B59.8060102@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7v1uokxxzh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 03/22/2012 08:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Hitoshi Mitake<h.mitake@gmail.com>  writes:
> 
>> If the pager can recognize the end of each commit, more confortable viewing of
>> git-log's output will be possible.
> 
> I think people just use "/^commit .*<RET>" once and then nagivate with "n"
> (and to change direction, "?<RET>") for this.
> 

Or capital N.

It's mostly useful when one wants to view the patch as well as the message,
so an alias like

    logp = !PAGER='less -p ^commit' git log -p

should work well, and also make LISP nerds giggle.

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