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
next prev parent 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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