From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:54:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/10] support pager.* for aliases
Message-ID: <7v8vqq72kp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110818215909.GA7799@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Until this patch, doing something like:
>
>   git config alias.foo log
>   git config pager.foo /some/specific/pager
>
> would not respect pager.foo at all.

Is it a good thing? Looks too confusing and I am having a hard time to
decide if this is "just because we could" or "because we need to be able
to do this for such and such reasons".