From: Dragan Simic Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:13:45 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add lines to `git log --graph` to separate connected regions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 2024-04-07 10:46, Quang Lê Duy wrote: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 3:34 PM Dragan Simic 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.