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find the 10 longest git commit **messages** (not changesets) in a repo
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thing.sh
git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit | awk '{print length() "\t" $1 }' | sort -rn | head -n 10
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Thanks for this chunk of code!

This didn't work for me because of the --pretty=oneline that will ignore multi-line commit messages.

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djeikyb commented Oct 6, 2022

This snippet didn't work for me either, so I tried my own hand at it.

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