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Subject: Re: To page or not to page
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On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:41:05AM -0400, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> c8af1de9cfa0a5678ae766777e0f905e60b69fda makes git status use a pager. I 
> think this is a horrible choice. Now when I type `git status` I have to 
> type "q" to get back to my shell, and I've lost the output of the pager. 
> It makes sense for commands with long output like `git log`, but `git 
> status` rarely has output longer than my terminal's height, and so making 
> it use the pager simply detracts from its functionality.
>
> Does anybody have any comments or opinions about this either way?

I agree with you; I don't like it at all. Probably whether or not to use
a pager for a given command should be controlled by a "pager.<cmd>"
config variable.

In the meantime, try adding FX to your LESS environment variable.

-Peff