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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Human friendly git: add another human readable option.

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Apr 1, 2007, 07:47 UTC
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<20070401074701.GD15922@spearce.org>
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Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 4/1/07, Sloof Lirpa <sitemaster@cox.net> wrote:
> >Building on top of the previous patches, this allows you to say:
> >
> >        $ git, please nicely ls-files
> >
> >to get a paginated output of ls-files.
> >
> 
> When 'talking' to a computer I would rather prefer to type as less as
> possible, but I understand it's a personal taste.
I once worked with someone whose PS1 was set to:
	PS1='and now I shall '
It was quite humerous to read the screenbuffer from a terminal:
   and now I shall make world
   ...
   and now I shall make clean
   ...
   and now I shall telnet remotesystem
   ...
   and now I shall kill 1899
;-)
-- 
Shawn.
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Message 3 of 4 in “Human friendly git: add another human readable option.”
  1. 3/3 Human friendly git: add another human readable option.Sloof Lirpa, Apr 1, 2007
  2. Marco CostalbaApr 1, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceApr 1, 2007
  4. Eric WongApr 1, 2007

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