From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] Clean way to disable pager Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:52:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 19 19:53:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IMoxf-0001Dt-TL for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:53:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753663AbXHSRxM (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:53:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753553AbXHSRxM (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:53:12 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:59911 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753345AbXHSRxM (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:53:12 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l7JHr4TO006840 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:53:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l7JHqwcw018985; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:52:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.251 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.24__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.185 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > > I think that deserves an less-hacky, and documented way. I'd suggest a > --no-pager, or --dont-paginate, that would do the opposite of -p as a > global option for git. Ack. I think it makes sense. The GIT_PAGER thing is equivalent, but at the same time, having a way to explicitly disable it with a command line option just seems to be the RightThing(tm) to do. Linus