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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Finally implement "git log --follow"
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:55:05 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> > 
> > Bad: Currently git-log does not support --stdin option, required IMHO
> > when git-log is runned by a tool, not a user, due to the possibility
> > of a very long command line.
> 
> I do think we should just fix this. The patch to do so can't be *that* 
> bad.

The only quirk here is that "--stdin" makes no sense with a pager. 
Therefore, you'd have to move the automatic pager invocation to _after_ 
option parsing.

Ciao,
Dscho