bug#19045: 25.0.50; [PATCH] vc-git-print-log use --follow

[Juri Linkov]

>>> The 20 characters limit seems arbitrary, we just need to avoid resizing the
>>> echo area. And if the "in background... done" part being truncated is
>>> a worry, we can rephrase them to go at the beginning of the sentence.
>>
>> Indeed, truncating "in background... done" is not nice, and I have
>> no idea how to rephrase it.
>
> How about:
>
> Running in background: %s
>
> and
>
> Finished in background: %s

Not bad, better would be to try to find words with the same length,
so the whole command won't jump 1 char to the right when finished.

>> Anyway, this is the current patch to try:
>
> Does it work like you wanted? According to Eli, we should replace
> message-truncate-lines here with resize-mini-windows.

message-truncate-lines works fine whereas resize-mini-windows doesn't.
Maybe the fact that it runs processes has its effect on resizing.