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Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] git/log -n
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Quoth binarycat <dogedoge61@gmail.com>:
> I wrote a patch for git/log to add an -n flag, which only shows the last N commits.
> This seems like a fairly obvious thing to include, and it wasn't too hard to implement either.
> Is there something i'm missing here?
> 
> the patch is available here:
> https://git.sr.ht/~binarycat/plan9front/commit/6f5fdf1c16dda55b56caa4edfd2f2e7df2394eb7.patch
> 
> - binarycat
> 

I think it'd be better to extend the
git/query language to support ranges,
which will make this sort of thing
available to every tool.