From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:08:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060607000816.GY10488@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061703380.5498@g5.osdl.org>
Dear diary, on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:05:59AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > This allows you to say:
> >
> > git --less diff v2.6.16-rc5..
>
> I've seriously considered something like that, although you chose a pretty
> strange - and long - flag.
>
> I was thinking something like "git -p log -p" (the first "-p" is for
> "paginate" - think "dir/p" in old DOS times, but we could claim it is for
> "pager" so that people don't laugh at us)
Actually, you made a case in the misty past that cg-log should just
stuff things through a pager by default and I ended up finding that
extremely convenient - what is the reason git log does not do the same?
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-07 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-04 21:19 [PATCH] Support for configurable git command aliases (v2) Petr Baudis
2006-06-04 21:20 ` Petr Baudis
2006-06-04 22:11 ` Martin Mares
2006-06-04 22:19 ` Petr Baudis
2006-06-04 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-04 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-06 23:58 ` [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere Junio C Hamano
2006-06-07 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-07 0:08 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2006-06-07 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-07 2:29 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-07 3:21 ` Linus Torvalds
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