From: Randy.Dunlap Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:14:51 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes Message-ID: <20050420221451.36c98f62.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: | | | On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: | > | > My logic: it's a lot more intuitive to say "cg-log | less" to get | > paginated output than it is to say "cg-log | cat" to get unpaginated | > output. | | I disagree. | | There is _never_ any valid situation where you do "cg-log" with | unpaginated output to a tty. | | In _any_ real system you'll be getting thousands of lines of output. | Possibly millions. unpaginated? What the hell are you talking about? Who in the world would look at thousands or millions of lines on a tty using a pager? | And as I pointed out, if the output is not a tty, then both less and more | automatically turn into cat, so there's no difference. This change _only_ | triggers for a tty, and I dare you to show a single relevant project where | it's ok to scroll thousands of lines. | | Even git-pasky, which is just a two-week-old project right now outputs | 4338 lines of output to "git log". | | Unpaginated? You must be kidding. | | (But if you are _that_ fast a reader, then hey, use "PAGER=cat", and | you'll find yourself happy). --- ~Randy