From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:35:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050421033526.GA9404@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504201809170.2344@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:12:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Here's a slightly updated version.
>
> It's identical to the previous one, except that it also feeds the result
> through "| ${PAGER:-less}" which makes it a lot more useful, in my
> opinion.
>
> If you redirect the output to a non-tty, both "less" and "more" do the
> right thing and just feed the output straight through. But if the output
> is a tty, this makes "git log" a lot more friendly than a quickly
> scrolling mess..
Personally, I'd rather it didn't do this; bk help does the same thing,
and it drives me crazy. I guess you have /usr/bin/man for a precedent,
though :-)
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.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 20:56 [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:03 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:19 ` Greg KH
2005-04-20 21:51 ` Mike Taht
2005-04-20 21:58 ` Joshua T. Corbin
2005-04-20 21:51 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-20 22:07 ` Steven Cole
2005-04-20 22:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-20 22:28 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 23:04 ` Greg KH
2005-04-21 0:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 3:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-04-21 2:45 ` Sean
2005-04-21 4:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 4:22 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-21 5:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-21 4:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-21 6:49 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-21 14:21 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-21 16:42 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-24 0:09 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-21 5:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-21 4:27 ` Sean
2005-04-21 5:29 ` Greg KH
2005-04-24 0:12 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-21 2:48 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-04-21 18:15 ` Removing command dispatcher (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes) David A. Wheeler
2005-04-21 7:49 ` [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes Ingo Molnar
2005-04-25 11:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-21 2:53 ` Bryan Donlan
2005-04-21 7:36 ` Petr Baudis
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