Re: [PATCH 5/5] add-patch: render hunks through the pager

From: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Date: May 20, 2024, 22:35 UTC
Message-ID: <83071f70-e8a1-41d6-9fb1-108a31602baa@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ec5d73e22a6e4587f3d87314a9c0e422@manjaro.org>

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Dragan Simic wrote:

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> Thus, if someone wants to have a complete longer-than-one-screen hunk
> displayed and use the terminal emulator scrollback to inspect the
> hunk in its entirety, passing such (or all) hunks through the pager
> would make such inspection impossible.  I'd assume that at least some
> Git users already do that (I do, for example), and we surely don't want
> to make that no longer possible.

I'm not sure if I understand the problem... disabling the pager is still an option, no?

    $ git -P add -p

    $ git -c pager.add=false add -p

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