From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wincent Colaiuta Subject: Re: To page or not to page Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 20:40:40 +0200 Message-ID: <15C1122F-B6BA-4599-A40C-181D131CD252@wincent.com> References: <70F76C0E-E16D-4047-873D-7FD19FDBB55D@sb.org> <20080502054508.GA28506@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vlk2txn8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <8C3474E2-3A4F-44E8-B301-C36939C7BA11@sb.org> <807E185B-BEE5-4AAF-8DF4-EE597681D61C@wincent.com> <20080502123656.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7D1C3FC4-9FC0-49E5-929C-CDEF5FAD3D02@wincent.com> <247FB870-E42E-4FFA-B230-8A377748C731@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 02 20:42:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Js0Cg-0006fV-O1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 20:41:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762698AbYEBSlE convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 14:41:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765298AbYEBSlD (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 14:41:03 -0400 Received: from wincent1.inetu.net ([209.235.192.161]:36727 "EHLO wincent1.inetu.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759612AbYEBSlB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 14:41:01 -0400 Received: from cuzco.lan (228.pool85-53-21.dynamic.orange.es [85.53.21.228]) (authenticated bits=0) by wincent1.inetu.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m42IegQv006741 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 2 May 2008 14:40:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <247FB870-E42E-4FFA-B230-8A377748C731@sb.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: El 2/5/2008, a las 18:56, Kevin Ballard escribi=F3: > On May 2, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > >> El 2/5/2008, a las 14:36, Jeff King escribi=F3: >>> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:34:10PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: >>> >>>> But evidently given that there has been so much backlash against =20 >>>> the >>>> patch the only way to keep everyone happy will be to make this >>>> configurable. >>> >>> Agreed. >>> >>> But I wonder why there seems to be such a split between people who >>> clearly have short git-status output, and those who have long git-=20 >>> status >>> output. >> >> I generally try to work on one thing at a time and keep the status =20 >> output short -- and I imagine that that's the way most people work =20 >> -- but there are certain things where long output is going to be =20 >> unavoidable, like renaming a directory with lots of files in it. =20 >> And when that happens, seeing only the bottom of the "git status" =20 >> output and not the top is not what I want 100% of the time. > > Doesn't your terminal have the ability to scroll? If my git-status =20 > output is longer than my terminal's height, I just hit Page Up to =20 > see the top. Of course it does, but page up won't necessarily take me to the top of = =20 the "git status" output; usually it takes me to somewhere before it or = =20 somewhere after it. Wincent