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Re: To page or not to page

From
Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
May 2, 2008, 18:40 UTC
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<15C1122F-B6BA-4599-A40C-181D131CD252@wincent.com>
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El 2/5/2008, a las 18:56, Kevin Ballard escribió:
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> On May 2, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 2/5/2008, a las 14:36, Jeff King escribió:
>>> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:34:10PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>>>
>>>> But evidently given that there has been so much backlash against  
>>>> the
>>>> patch the only way to keep everyone happy will be to make this
>>>> configurable.
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> But I wonder why there seems to be such a split between people who
>>> clearly have short git-status output, and those who have long git- 
>>> status
>>> output.
>>
>> I generally try to work on one thing at a time and keep the status  
>> output short -- and I imagine that that's the way most people work  
>> -- but there are certain things where long output is going to be  
>> unavoidable, like renaming a directory with lots of files in it.  
>> And when that happens, seeing only the bottom of the "git status"  
>> output and not the top is not what I want 100% of the time.
>
> Doesn't your terminal have the ability to scroll? If my git-status  
> output is longer than my terminal's height, I just hit Page Up to  
> see the top.

Of course it does, but page up won't necessarily take me to the top of the "git status" output; usually it takes me to somewhere before it or somewhere after it.

Wincent
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Message 15 of 31 in “To page or not to page”
  1. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  2. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  4. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  6. Bart TrojanowskiMay 2, 2008
  7. Pedro MeloMay 2, 2008
  8. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  9. Wincent ColaiutaMay 2, 2008
  10. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  11. Pedro MeloMay 2, 2008
  12. Aidan Van DykMay 2, 2008
  13. Wincent ColaiutaMay 2, 2008
  14. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  15. Wincent ColaiutaMay 2, 2008
  16. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinMay 2, 2008
  18. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  20. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  22. Jeff KingMay 5, 2008
  23. Jeff KingMay 6, 2008
  24. Jeff KingMay 6, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoMay 11, 2008
  26. Jeff KingMay 16, 2008
  27. Jeff KingMay 16, 2008
  28. Johannes SchindelinMay 16, 2008
  29. Jakub NarebskiMay 2, 2008
  30. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  31. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008

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