From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20060604211931.10117.82695.stgit@machine.or.cz> <20060604212050.GV10488@pasky.or.cz> <7vodx5n8en.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 07 02:06:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FnlYm-00033i-Oo for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:06:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751387AbWFGAGF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:06:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751389AbWFGAGF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:06:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:15807 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751387AbWFGAGE (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:06:04 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k570602g026592 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:06:00 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k5705xNb007506; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:05:59 -0700 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vodx5n8en.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.75__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.135 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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