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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add lines to `git log --graph` to separate connected regions

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DSDragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date
Apr 7, 2024, 09:13 UTC
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On 2024-04-07 10:46, Quang Lê Duy wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 3:34 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> wrote:
>> These days, very few computer screens aren't in widescreen format,
>> so there's inevitably less vertical screen space available than the
>> horizontal space.
> 
> The ability to scroll makes all the diffence though, there is quite a 
> chance any
> non-trivial commit log is going to span more than one screen height 
> already
> anyway. There's no risk in sprinkling a few more lines into it; 
> meanwhile if the
> number of columns actually gets too many, in many cases you will not 
> have a
> horizontal scrollbar to play with.
> 
> But it depends on how this idea will be expanded, as it has been only 
> an initial
> hint from the original reply.

Please note that less(1), which is commonly used as the pager, also supports horizontal scrolling. Perhaps that isn't a very well known feature of less(1), but it is supported.

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Message 14 of 15 in “Add lines to `git log --graph` to separate connected regions”
  1. 0/1 Add lines to `git log --graph` to separate connected regionsLê Duy Quang, Apr 7, 2024
  2. 1/1 Add separator lines into `git log --graph`.Lê Duy Quang, Apr 7, 2024
  3. Eric SunshineApr 7, 2024
  4. Eric SunshineApr 7, 2024
  5. Quang Lê DuyApr 7, 2024
  6. Dragan SimicApr 7, 2024
  7. Quang Lê DuyApr 7, 2024
  8. Eric SunshineApr 7, 2024
  9. Eric SunshineApr 7, 2024
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2024
  11. Quang Lê DuyApr 7, 2024
  12. Dragan SimicApr 7, 2024
  13. Quang Lê DuyApr 7, 2024
  14. Dragan SimicApr 7, 2024
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2024

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