From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:44:12 GMT Subject: Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff" Message-ID: <7vtzmuyyc3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20071207213541.GA11723@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:34:14PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:25:34AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> > git-bisect visualize: work in non-windowed environments better >> >> Isn't this more or less the use case for the "git view" alias? > > Which isn't to say that I don't think your solution is nicer; it is. But > if we don't use it here, then perhaps "git view" really is a solution in > search of a problem. Well, I think "git view" should not be just "predefined alias that the user can override wholesale", which is what you currently have. I think it can just be an example in "git config" manpage (i.e. "If you want to, you can alias 'view' to 'gitk' or 'gitview'") and I do not think we need core-side support for that. If it becomes cleverer, that's a different story. Noticing if the user is in windowing environment or not, and acting differently, would make it a single command that acts sensibly and in context sensitive way.