From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/10] support pager.* for aliases Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:54:46 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8vqq72kp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20110818215820.GA7767@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110818215909.GA7799@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso , Ingo =?utf-8?Q?Br=C3=BCckl?= To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 19 00:54:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QuBUE-0006TD-T7 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:54:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754900Ab1HRWyu (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:54:50 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:56257 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754830Ab1HRWyt (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:54:49 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3A0486B; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:54:48 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=d/139LDS2JcqipmP7f0W13mVnuc=; b=xBxvvt sC7hAEzQoXcIJQAtcdChrGYHDRyPwWzrDs90PJiQwJV2SWc6eDaJ8u2CDn65taNP b+BTjc6TON0xgYcDvJ1YULGvINNHecWq9+ZexsBzExAKxcPQLwwaBdQzon2ez4Ei ul/eNhrNYB+JwY/KNd32H8xKEXgC8t4OjBR88= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=DJFQ1Jo517kS07zTK/tbubpbuVsjNyWS 3zE5HLQYHjs+Vv3q3wPGMAt5fwHRMaeUMeUmjLwXFTE+In1gEX4vXzwRXLmtGt3A DlPgB4j1IKYnfSLzHh8DYSnzocaFAww1P1tg0AOdWaZLGUh3exFo7HXEVr3jQtrQ Ax+rWD4KOTM= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E49486A; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:54:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D08F54868; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:54:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20110818215909.GA7799@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:59:10 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 12A99BC8-C9ED-11E0-B721-1DC62E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > Until this patch, doing something like: > > git config alias.foo log > git config pager.foo /some/specific/pager > > would not respect pager.foo at all. Is it a good thing? Looks too confusing and I am having a hard time to decide if this is "just because we could" or "because we need to be able to do this for such and such reasons".