From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Clean way to disable pager
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:11:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fadhkv$amj$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vpqzm0mvcz0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr
Matthieu Moy wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> writes:
>>> On Aug 19, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>>
>>>> + [-p|--paginate] [--no-pager]
>>>
>>> I think that [-p|--[no-]paginate] would be more consistent with the
>>> way negatable options are normally specified.
>>
>> Disregard previously existing code, I'd vote for using an option set
>> like the following:
>>
>> --pager
>> --pager=less
>> --pager=cat
>> --no-pager
>>
>> "--paginate" is rather artificial in contrast.
>
> ACK. I thought of naming the option --no-paginate, but I don't think
> that good english. --dont-paginate would be good english, but doesn't
> match the --[no-]whatever scheme.
>
> Perhaps using David's proposal, and keeping the --paginate as a
> backward compatibility, deprecated switch is the way to go.
I like it too. ACK.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-19 17:26 [RFC] Clean way to disable pager Matthieu Moy
2007-08-19 17:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-19 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-19 18:24 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-08-19 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-19 19:44 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-19 21:59 ` Adam Roben
2007-08-19 22:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-20 8:15 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-21 2:11 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-08-21 8:37 ` [PATCH] Replace git --paginate by git --pager[=PAGER_CMD] Matthieu Moy
2007-08-21 8:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-21 8:51 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-21 9:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-19 21:28 ` [RFC] Clean way to disable pager Alex Riesen
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