From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:01:30 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk normal use on linux repo and severe memory pressure
Message-ID: <m2pqn667f9.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinrj2AOCMMWazf2F4eKy7Sy56K0vg@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> I am tempted to set a global config option limiting gitk to a couple
> thousand commits, but it's not really the right solution. If I am
> trawling older history, I'll hit the limit and have to close gitk and
> reopen overriding the parameter.

You can start gitk with --max-count=N and if you need more commits you
can edit the current view to increase that number.  No need to restart
gitk.

Andreas.

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