From: Kevin Ballard Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:56:46 GMT Subject: Re: To page or not to page Message-ID: <247FB870-E42E-4FFA-B230-8A377748C731@sb.org> In-Reply-To: <7D1C3FC4-9FC0-49E5-929C-CDEF5FAD3D02@wincent.com> On May 2, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > 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. Doesn't your terminal have the ability to scroll? If my git-status output is longer than my terminal's height, I just hit Page Up to see the top. -Kevin -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com