Re: [PATCH] Add support for limiting number of lines generated in messages by post-receive-email

> We have become used to the features of svnmailer when used with Subversion,
> and one of those useful features is that it can limit the maximum length
> (in lines) of a commit email message. This is terribly useful since once the
> goes beyond a reasonable number of lines, nobody is going to read the remainder,
> and if they really want the entire contents of the commits, they can use
> git itself to get them using the revision IDs present in the message already.
>
> This patch adds a new parameter to the post-receive-email hook script called
> 'maxlines', that defaults to 2048 if not specified. The entire message is
> filtered through a function that counts the number of lines generated
> (including headers), and any lines beyond the limit are suppressed; if any
> lines are suppressed, a final line is added indicating the number that
> were suppressed.