[darcs-users] Being smart about proffered changes

[Jamie Webb]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 03:50:14PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> This is definitely in "You're right --- do you have a patch?" territory, but:
> 
> It's annoying when 'darcs record' prints a *very* large hunk before
> asking 'record this patch?'  It should summarize large hunks somehow;
> I don't like having my entire scrollback occupied by the ex-contents
> of a TAGS file I didn't mean to record.

How about piping into 'less -R' if the hunk is longer than X lines?
Where X might be specified either directly or as a multiple of $LINES?

-- Jamie Webb