From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Ballard Subject: Re: To page or not to page Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 12:56:46 -0400 Message-ID: <247FB870-E42E-4FFA-B230-8A377748C731@sb.org> References: <70F76C0E-E16D-4047-873D-7FD19FDBB55D@sb.org> <20080502054508.GA28506@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vlk2txn8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <8C3474E2-3A4F-44E8-B301-C36939C7BA11@sb.org> <807E185B-BEE5-4AAF-8DF4-EE597681D61C@wincent.com> <20080502123656.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7D1C3FC4-9FC0-49E5-929C-CDEF5FAD3D02@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 02 18:58:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JryZn-0001l5-Cf for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 18:57:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757642AbYEBQ4t convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 12:56:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751200AbYEBQ4t (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 12:56:49 -0400 Received: from sd-green-bigip-66.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.66]:37962 "EHLO randymail-a5.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757184AbYEBQ4t convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 12:56:49 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.215] (c-24-91-11-245.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.91.11.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by randymail-a5.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85188FB82; Fri, 2 May 2008 09:56:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7D1C3FC4-9FC0-49E5-929C-CDEF5FAD3D02@wincent.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On May 2, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > El 2/5/2008, a las 14:36, Jeff King escribi=F3: >> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:34:10PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: >> >>> But evidently given that there has been so much backlash against th= e >>> patch the only way to keep everyone happy will be to make this >>> configurable. >> >> Agreed. >> >> But I wonder why there seems to be such a split between people who >> clearly have short git-status output, and those who have long git-=20 >> status >> output. > > I generally try to work on one thing at a time and keep the status =20 > output short -- and I imagine that that's the way most people work =20 > -- but there are certain things where long output is going to be =20 > unavoidable, like renaming a directory with lots of files in it. And = =20 > when that happens, seeing only the bottom of the "git status" output = =20 > and not the top is not what I want 100% of the time. Doesn't your terminal have the ability to scroll? If my git-status =20 output is longer than my terminal's height, I just hit Page Up to see =20 the top. -Kevin --=20 Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com