Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jun 7, 2006, 00:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20060607000816.GY10488@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061703380.5498@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:05:59AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...

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> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > This allows you to say:
> > 
> > 	git --less diff v2.6.16-rc5..
> 
> I've seriously considered something like that, although you chose a pretty 
> strange - and long - flag.
> 
> I was thinking something like "git -p log -p" (the first "-p" is for 
> "paginate" - think "dir/p" in old DOS times, but we could claim it is for 
> "pager" so that people don't laugh at us)

Actually, you made a case in the misty past that cg-log should just stuff things through a pager by default and I ended up finding that extremely convenient - what is the reason git log does not do the same?

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