From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:41:01 GMT
Subject: Re: git log: Add a switch to limit the number of displayed lines from the commit messages
Message-ID: <7vd2rlic2q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130615191905.GA3363@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> there are people out there disliking elaborate commit messages, as going
>> over `git log` is tedious as you have to scroll a lot. As I do not like
>> the suggestion to make commit messages shorter by omitting certain
>> details, a way to limit the number displayed lines of the commit
>> messages would be nice to have.
>
> Have you tried gitk or tig?  They split the screen so you can browse
> through commits, one per line, in one half and read the corresponding
> commit messages and patches in the other.

Or inside "less" that is spawned by "git log -p", I often say this:

    /^commit .*|^diff --git .*<ENTER>

and navigate with 'n' and 'p'.