From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:08:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere Message-ID: <20060607000816.GY10488@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:05:59AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds said that... > 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? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.