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Re: To page or not to page

From
Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
May 2, 2008, 10:34 UTC
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<807E185B-BEE5-4AAF-8DF4-EE597681D61C@wincent.com>
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El 2/5/2008, a las 8:04, Kevin Ballard escribió:
> Is there any good reason to make git-status use the pager? The  
> output is very rarely long enough to warrant it, and if I need a  
> pager I can always just pipe it to less myself.

I for one welcome this change and often have status output that is long enough to warrant using a pager. I am constantly seeing more than a full screen of results and then either re-running the command as "git -p status" or otherwise scrolling upwards to see the part of the status output that is actually interesting to me. It has often annoyed me that commands like "git log" have always given me a highly usable default behaviour "out of the box" (one of the first things I noticed about Git when I started using it that made me think, "ah, that's a nice touch") while "git status" didn't.

But evidently given that there has been so much backlash against the patch the only way to keep everyone happy will be to make this configurable.

Cheers, Wincent

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  1. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  2. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  4. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  6. Bart TrojanowskiMay 2, 2008
  7. Pedro MeloMay 2, 2008
  8. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  9. Wincent ColaiutaMay 2, 2008
  10. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  11. Pedro MeloMay 2, 2008
  12. Aidan Van DykMay 2, 2008
  13. Wincent ColaiutaMay 2, 2008
  14. Kevin BallardMay 2, 2008
  15. Wincent ColaiutaMay 2, 2008
  16. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinMay 2, 2008
  18. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  20. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2008
  22. Jeff KingMay 5, 2008
  23. Jeff KingMay 6, 2008
  24. Jeff KingMay 6, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoMay 11, 2008
  26. Jeff KingMay 16, 2008
  27. Jeff KingMay 16, 2008
  28. Johannes SchindelinMay 16, 2008
  29. Jakub NarebskiMay 2, 2008
  30. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
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