From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: piped to a pager (was: how to speed up "git log"?)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:09:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702180109.26412.bruno@clisp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702180019040.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> you can blame the person calling git log and waiting until it
> finishes. See the list archives for reasons why.
... and earlier:
> Usually the output of git-log -- even with pathname
> filtering -- starts almost instantaneous, and is piped to your pager.
The pager ('less') in a console is not a good solution for everone:
- People used to GUI editors (kate, nedit, ...) miss a scroll bar for
navigation. You can't use kate or nedit as a pager.
- PAGER="vi -" also reads all input before it displays anything.
- PAGER="xless" likewise.
- In Emacs shell-mode, with PAGER="", you see the output as it is produced,
but it's disturbing to work in a buffer which is growing, where the scrollbar
continues to change its position.
It's OK for many people, but not for everyone.
Bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-18 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-11 11:52 how to speed up "git log"? Bruno Haible
2007-02-11 16:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-11 23:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-11 23:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-11 23:41 ` Bruno Haible
2007-02-11 23:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-11 23:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-11 23:59 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-02-12 2:02 ` Bruno Haible
2007-02-12 11:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-12 4:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12 6:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12 6:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12 6:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12 6:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-12 11:27 ` Bruno Haible
[not found] ` <20070211152840.GA2781@steel.home>
2007-02-11 23:52 ` Bruno Haible
2007-02-17 19:19 ` Bruno Haible
2007-02-17 23:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-18 0:09 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2007-02-18 0:10 ` piped to a pager (was: how to speed up "git log"?) Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-18 6:33 ` how to speed up "git log"? Shawn O. Pearce
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