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 17:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20060604211931.10117.82695.stgit@machine.or.cz> <20060604212050.GV10488@pasky.or.cz> <7vodx5n8en.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060607000816.GY10488@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 07 02:13:26 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 1Fnlfc-00040O-C7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:13:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751395AbWFGANA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:13:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751397AbWFGANA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:13:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:51136 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbWFGAM7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:12:59 -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 k570Cp2g026923 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:12:51 -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 k570CoeX007734; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:12:50 -0700 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20060607000816.GY10488@pasky.or.cz> 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 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