From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>, "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 14:29:54 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90606061929i68073677i686a3c1934ed64b1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061711000.5498@g5.osdl.org>
On 6/7/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> For "git diff", pagination by default is definitely not the right thing to
> do, but it's something you often end up wanting.
Why is it not a good default? Unless I expect it to be shorter than
the terminal, I always tack "| less" after it. Except when I tack ">
foo.patch" and then the auto-pager knows what to do anyway.
cheers,
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-07 2:30 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
2006-06-07 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-07 2:29 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2006-06-07 3:21 ` Linus Torvalds
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