From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: (minor concern) git using the pager should not be a default Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:09:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <503E3CFE.1080603@sigmadesigns.com> <7vd329wpt0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Junio C Hamano , Emmanuel Michon , To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 31 20:10:43 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T7Vfr-0008Bq-RP for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:10:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754585Ab2HaSKU (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:10:20 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:51198 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754539Ab2HaSJn (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:09:43 -0400 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3X7pW36bKJz4KK4F; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:09:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: Ep/m431LQuc4SNNjqroMHprZJ/GFTJSD7sbeBf3MttU= Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-116-91.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.116.91]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3X7pW34GqMzbbgc; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:09:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id E65E5CA2A3; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:09:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Yow! Are we wet yet? In-Reply-To: (dag@cray.com's message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:54:45 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: writes: > Is "status" considered a plumbing layer command? Because I have often > wondered why it does not use the pager by default. I pipe it through > less all the time and it's kind of annoying that it works differently > than everything else. I would be pretty annoyed if git status would page by default. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."