From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wincent Colaiuta Subject: Re: To page or not to page Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 12:34:10 +0200 Message-ID: <807E185B-BEE5-4AAF-8DF4-EE597681D61C@wincent.com> 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> 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: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Git Mailing List To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 02 12:35:29 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 1Jrsbr-0005QX-7O for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 12:35:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758246AbYEBKeg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 06:34:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757570AbYEBKef (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 06:34:35 -0400 Received: from wincent1.inetu.net ([209.235.192.161]:34321 "EHLO wincent1.inetu.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756068AbYEBKef convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 06:34:35 -0400 Received: from cuzco.lan (228.pool85-53-21.dynamic.orange.es [85.53.21.228]) (authenticated bits=0) by wincent1.inetu.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m42AYBYE027889 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 2 May 2008 06:34:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8C3474E2-3A4F-44E8-B301-C36939C7BA11@sb.org> 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: El 2/5/2008, a las 8:04, Kevin Ballard escribi=F3: > Is there any good reason to make git-status use the pager? The =20 > output is very rarely long enough to warrant it, and if I need a =20 > pager I can always just pipe it to less myself. I for one welcome this change and often have status output that is =20 long enough to warrant using a pager. I am constantly seeing more than = =20 a full screen of results and then either re-running the command as =20 "git -p status" or otherwise scrolling upwards to see the part of the =20 status output that is actually interesting to me. It has often annoyed = =20 me that commands like "git log" have always given me a highly usable =20 default behaviour "out of the box" (one of the first things I noticed =20 about Git when I started using it that made me think, "ah, that's a =20 nice touch") while "git status" didn't. But evidently given that there has been so much backlash against the =20 patch the only way to keep everyone happy will be to make this =20 configurable. Cheers, Wincent