From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: (minor concern) git using the pager should not be a default Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:54:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <503E3CFE.1080603@sigmadesigns.com> <7vd329wpt0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Emmanuel Michon , To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 31 19:59:15 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 1T7VUo-0008B5-G5 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:59:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754797Ab2HaR67 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:58:59 -0400 Received: from exprod6og112.obsmtp.com ([64.18.1.29]:33723 "EHLO exprod6og112.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754378Ab2HaR66 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:58:58 -0400 Received: from CFWEX01.americas.cray.com ([136.162.34.11]) (using TLSv1) by exprod6ob112.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUED7XxdPxXvgUji6arV9xPAqrJp45IwO@postini.com; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:58:58 PDT Received: from transit.us.cray.com (172.31.17.53) by CFWEX01.americas.cray.com (172.30.88.25) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.318.1; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:54:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7vd329wpt0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:50:19 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > In other words, Porcelain (roughly speaking, those that page by > default when their standard output is terminal), are not "command > line applications"; they have a layer on top with a built-in UI. 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. -Dave