Subject: Re: wishlist bugreport: make limit configurable for do_fmt_merge_msg (merge.log)

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:10:39 +0200

Am 8/20/2010 10:16, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> This also provides --log-limit=0 / "[merge] loglimit = 0" to not limit
> the number of commits summarized at all, which I would expect to
...
>  [verse]
> -'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
> -'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] -F <file>
> +'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] [--log-limit=<n>] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
> +'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] [--log-limit=<n>] -F <file>

Do we need --log-limit? Why not just --log=42 and --no-log equals --log=0?

Ditto for the config option:

  merge.log=42
  merge.log=0

and for backwards compatibility:

  merge.log=false  ===  merge.log=0
  merge.log=true   ===  merge.log=20

-- Hannes