diff --git a/repo2html b/repo2html
index 159bafb..7d64bc4 100755
--- a/repo2html
+++ b/repo2html
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ while getopts t:d:c:l:f: opt; do
     c) copyright="$OPTARG";;
     l) license="$OPTARG";;
     f) msgfmt="$OPTARG";;
+    R) rss_count="$OPTARG";;
     ?) exit 64;;
   esac
 done
@@ -79,5 +80,5 @@ export title desc copyright license msgfmt
 
 # pass commit list to the HTML and RSS processors
 "$repotype"/list | tee \
-  >( ./rss "$repotype" "$url_root" > "$path_out/rss.xml" ) \
+  >( ./rss "$repotype" "$url_root" "$rss_count" > "$path_out/rss.xml" ) \
   | ./processor "$repotype" "$path_out"
diff --git a/rss b/rss
index 1ed7dae..8a89326 100755
--- a/rss
+++ b/rss
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 repotype="${1?Missing repository type}"
 url="${2?Missing URL}"
-count=10
+count="${3:-0}"
 
 # provide default message formatter if necessary
 msgfmt="${msgfmt:-./msgfmt}"
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ while read hash commit ts id subject; do
       </description>
     </item>
 EOE
+
+  # continue until we reach the requested number (note that we increment before
+  # the check, meaning that if the count is 0, then we will output every commit
+  ((i++))
+  [ "$i" -eq "$count" ] && break
 done
 
 # footer