From: Martin Langhoff Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:17:49 GMT Subject: Re: gitk normal use on linux repo and severe memory pressure Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > You can start gitk with --max-count=N Or --since=2.weeks.ago. Of course I can -- and sometimes do. But gitk defaults to OOMing my box if I forget to do so on a large repo. > and if you need more commits you > can edit the current view to increase that number.  No need to restart > gitk. Ah, that's news to me! I just tried it and it's... awkward. In fact, the dialog box seems to be missing an 'apply' button. m --  martin.langhoff@gmail.com  martin@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff