From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4497: 23.1; vc-print-log -vs- very long log files Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:56:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <200911181956.nAIJu9SH010417@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: Reply-To: Dan Nicolaescu , 4497@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258574930 17431 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 20:08:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:08:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 4497@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 21:08:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAqpW-0003Sh-1G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:08:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAqpV-0001k9-Eu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:08:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAqoJ-0001BE-Io for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAqoF-00016C-O3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48599 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAqoF-00015q-I0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:44067) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAqoE-0000oT-S0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAIK7KpV022583; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:07:20 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nAIK56uE021844; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:05:06 -0800 Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:05:06 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Dan Nicolaescu Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:05:06 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4497 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 4497-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B4497.125857418221025 (code B ref 4497); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:05:06 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4497) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 18 Nov 2009 19:56:22 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from paul-mcgann-v0.ics.uci.edu (paul-mcgann-v0.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.147]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAIJuLxn021022 for <4497@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:56:22 -0800 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by paul-mcgann-v0.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAIJu9sk009503 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:56:09 -0800 Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id nAIJu9SH010417; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:56:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:53:19 -0600") Original-Lines: 28 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please send mail to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu or more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: nAIJu9sk009503 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:27 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32688 Archived-At: Tom Tromey 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.