From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Ballard Subject: To page or not to page Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 01:41:05 -0400 Message-ID: <70F76C0E-E16D-4047-873D-7FD19FDBB55D@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 02 07:41:59 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 1Jro1u-0001A9-AJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 07:41:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755144AbYEBFlK (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 01:41:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753565AbYEBFlJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 01:41:09 -0400 Received: from sd-green-bigip-145.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.145]:42750 "EHLO randymail-a12.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752795AbYEBFlH (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 01:41:07 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.215] (c-24-91-11-245.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [24.91.11.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by randymail-a12.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53D2A8A65 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 22:41:06 -0700 (PDT) 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: 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? -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com