From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:14:51 -0700 Organization: OSDL Message-ID: <20050420221451.36c98f62.rddunlap@osdl.org> References: <20050420205633.GC19112@pasky.ji.cz> <20050420211919.GA20129@kroah.com> <20050420215117.GJ19112@pasky.ji.cz> <20050420222815.GM19112@pasky.ji.cz> <20050421033526.GA9404@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dan@debian.org, pasky@ucw.cz, greg@kroah.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 21 07:11:05 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOTxw-0002Tr-HO for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:11:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261220AbVDUFPK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:15:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261221AbVDUFPK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:15:10 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:16851 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261220AbVDUFPB (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:15:01 -0400 Received: from midway.verizon.net (wbar2.sea1-4-5-049-023.sea1.dsl-verizon.net [4.5.49.23]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3L5Eus3010574 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:14:57 -0700 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.35__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: | | | On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: | > | > My logic: it's a lot more intuitive to say "cg-log | less" to get | > paginated output than it is to say "cg-log | cat" to get unpaginated | > output. | | I disagree. | | There is _never_ any valid situation where you do "cg-log" with | unpaginated output to a tty. | | In _any_ real system you'll be getting thousands of lines of output. | Possibly millions. unpaginated? What the hell are you talking about? Who in the world would look at thousands or millions of lines on a tty using a pager? | And as I pointed out, if the output is not a tty, then both less and more | automatically turn into cat, so there's no difference. This change _only_ | triggers for a tty, and I dare you to show a single relevant project where | it's ok to scroll thousands of lines. | | Even git-pasky, which is just a two-week-old project right now outputs | 4338 lines of output to "git log". | | Unpaginated? You must be kidding. | | (But if you are _that_ fast a reader, then hey, use "PAGER=cat", and | you'll find yourself happy). --- ~Randy