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bug#4497: 23.1; vc-print-log -vs- very long log files
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Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#4497: 23.1; vc-print-log -vs- very long log files |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:56:09 -0800 (PST) |
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>
> Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
> and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
>
> I invoked vc-print-log from vc-dir on the emacs git repository.
> This generates an extremely large amount of data.
> I couldn't find a way to interrupt the log generation; I ended up
> killing git directly from the shell.
>
> It would be nice if VC were smarter about limiting the amount of log
> output. I am not sure exactly how I would want this to work, but at
> least by default I probably don't want more than a couple megabytes of
> output.
The generic part of this is solved now, there's a limit on the number of
log entries displayed by default.
But vc-git.el does not no support this feature.
When passed a non-nil LIMIT argument `vc-git-print-log' should tell "git log"
to limit the output.
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