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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:05:59 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061703380.5498@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vodx5n8en.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> This allows you to say:
> 
> 	git --less diff v2.6.16-rc5..

I've seriously considered something like that, although you chose a pretty 
strange - and long - flag.

I was thinking something like "git -p log -p" (the first "-p" is for 
"paginate" - think "dir/p" in old DOS times, but we could claim it is for 
"pager" so that people don't laugh at us)

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-07  0:06 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 [this message]
2006-06-07  0:08         ` Petr Baudis
2006-06-07  0:12           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-07  2:29             ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-07  3:21               ` Linus Torvalds

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