Re: [PATCH] git: add -N as a short option for --no-pager

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: May 1, 2018, 11:41 UTC
Message-ID: <5399f852-baab-6d65-6bac-9b61f5bff6ba@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <08882cea-5dab-3cc7-33ac-cf938253a34a@kdbg.org>

On Wednesday 25 April 2018 11:55 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> I considered -P, but thought that it would better be reserved for
> something related to "paths". We have --{html,man,info}-path, which
> would be served better with -[HMI]. That leaves --exec-path, which we
> would probably abbreviate as -x or -X. So, -P is perhaps not that bad
> after all.
>

It might be a good choice but I don't think it's not the best choice anyway because '-P' doesn't seem to communicate 'no pager' well.

> Perhaps --no-pager means also "unpaginated" (-u, -U), "linear" (-l, -L),
> "streamed" (-s, -S). Other ideas, anyone?
>

Considering the other alternatives you suggested (as I couldn't come up with a better "single letter" option ;-) ), I think '-s' might be a nice choice but would possibly need some explanation in the documentation to the wondering users.

In the end, lacking a better one letter option, I think '-P' would be a better choice after all. It would, possibly, be easily understood as a negation of pagination (-p). So, I guess it would be better to go with '-P' than '-N'.

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