Re: [PATCH] git-blame --incremental: don't use pager

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 28, 2007, 19:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzm83dkw4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pqbezo9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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> René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
>
>> Starting a pager defeats the purpose of the incremental output
>> mode.  This changes git-blame to only paginate if --incremental
>> was not given.
>
> I should have done this myself when I applied Linus's patch.
> Thanks for catching.

Although I'd apply it anyway, strictly speaking, I think this patch should not matter because any real Porcelain would be using this as an upstream of a pipe to its drawing engine.

Well, unless that Porcelain drives --incremental through a pair of ptys, but I do not think it is likely ;-).

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