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Re: paginate git-diff by default?

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Oct 10, 2006, 18:15 UTC
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<20061010181558.GB16972@spearce.org>
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<20061010181337.GE8612@admingilde.org>
Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> wrote:
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> hoi :)
> 
> I always find myself typing "git -p diff".
> Should we paginate git-diff output by default?
> 
> I was sure this was discussed before but I could not immediately
> find it, so I'm simply asking again ;-).

I agree. I'm very used to git log automatically running my $PAGER; I'm always surprised that git diff doesn't do the same when attached to my tty.

-- 
Shawn.
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