Re: To page or not to page

> El 2/5/2008, a las 14:36, Jeff King escribió:
>> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:34:10PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>>
>>> But evidently given that there has been so much backlash against the
>>> patch the only way to keep everyone happy will be to make this
>>> configurable.
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> But I wonder why there seems to be such a split between people who
>> clearly have short git-status output, and those who have long git- 
>> status
>> output.
>
> I generally try to work on one thing at a time and keep the status  
> output short -- and I imagine that that's the way most people work  
> -- but there are certain things where long output is going to be  
> unavoidable, like renaming a directory with lots of files in it. And  
> when that happens, seeing only the bottom of the "git status" output  
> and not the top is not what I want 100% of the time.