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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:12:50 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061711000.5498@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060607000816.GY10488@pasky.or.cz>



On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> Actually, you made a case in the misty past that cg-log should just
> stuff things through a pager by default and I ended up finding that
> extremely convenient - what is the reason git log does not do the same?

"git log" does, "git diff" does not (and yeah, I just chose a bad example, 
I meant "git -p diff -p")

For "git diff", pagination by default is definitely not the right thing to 
do, but it's something you often end up wanting.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-07  0:13 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
2006-06-07  0:08         ` Petr Baudis
2006-06-07  0:12           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-06-07  2:29             ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-07  3:21               ` Linus Torvalds

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