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Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 22, 2008, 10:01 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> writes:
>
>> I am aware that this is a less / xterm issue, but I wanted to let
>> you know.
>
> Do you mean "me" by "let you know"?  Well, I have already been aware of
> it, thanks.

Having said all that, I have to say I am regretting to have accepted that patch to enable pager on status, not because it bothers me personally (it doesn't primarily because I practically never run git-status because I consider the command useless and living almost always in Emacs helps), but because in principle changing anything that existing users are used to is bad.

Jeff had a patch to allow boolean configuration variable "pager.<command>" to override the built-in pager settings during 1.5.6 cycle, and I think it was a reasonable approach to take. People who want to page output from git-status can then set "pager.status = true" in their configuration (and then we can revert c8af1de (make git-status use a pager, 2008-04-23)). Alternatively we could keep the current status-quo for the default, and people can say "pager.status = false" in their configuration.

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  1. Jan EngelhardtJun 21, 2008
  2. Vegard NossumJun 21, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2008
  4. Jan EngelhardtJun 21, 2008
  5. Jan EngelhardtJun 22, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2008
  8. Jeff KingJun 23, 2008
  9. Tim StoakesJul 3, 2008
  10. Jeff KingJul 3, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2008
  12. Wincent ColaiutaJul 3, 2008
  13. Jeff KingJul 3, 2008
  14. Wincent ColaiutaJul 3, 2008
  15. Vegard NossumJun 22, 2008
  16. Johannes GilgerJun 21, 2008
  17. Johannes GilgerJun 22, 2008
  18. Dan McGeeJun 26, 2008
  19. Matthieu MoyJun 26, 2008
  20. Wincent ColaiutaJun 26, 2008
  21. Jeff KingJun 26, 2008

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