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Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)

From
Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
Jul 3, 2008, 13:37 UTC
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<08353871-5C94-4E97-9589-DC3980C47CD4@wincent.com>
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El 3/7/2008, a las 14:11, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Tim Stoakes wrote:
>
>> This [changing git status to use the pager automatically] was quite a
>> nasty change to sneak on people I think.
>
> Well, I think that a command producing pages and pages of output  
> without
> stopping is useless.  Therefore, _I_ maintain that it makes tons of  
> sense.

Ditto. For me, the change was very welcome. Sure, usually the status output is short, but on those occasions where it isn't (big file reorganizations etc) I was quite sick of doing the "git status, oops that output was too long let's try again, git -p status" dance. It was also incongruous with my very first experiences with Git, where I had been pleasantly surprised that "git log" automatically invoked the pager whereas "svn log" just spewed output into my console until ^C.

Cheers, Wincent

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  2. Vegard NossumJun 21, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2008
  4. Jan EngelhardtJun 21, 2008
  5. Jan EngelhardtJun 22, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2008
  8. Jeff KingJun 23, 2008
  9. Tim StoakesJul 3, 2008
  10. Jeff KingJul 3, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2008
  12. Wincent ColaiutaJul 3, 2008
  13. Jeff KingJul 3, 2008
  14. Wincent ColaiutaJul 3, 2008
  15. Vegard NossumJun 22, 2008
  16. Johannes GilgerJun 21, 2008
  17. Johannes GilgerJun 22, 2008
  18. Dan McGeeJun 26, 2008
  19. Matthieu MoyJun 26, 2008
  20. Wincent ColaiutaJun 26, 2008
  21. Jeff KingJun 26, 2008

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