From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 06:04:01 GMT
Subject: Re: To page or not to page
Message-ID: <8C3474E2-3A4F-44E8-B301-C36939C7BA11@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vlk2txn8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On May 2, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:41:05AM -0400, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody have any comments or opinions about this either way?
>>
>> I agree with you; I don't like it at all.
>
> I do not care either way.  As I do not have LESS defined in my  
> environment
> (which makes git use its built-in that contains FX), I actually never
> noticed the difference before or after that patch.

Even if I put FX into LESS (I have it set normally so it contains R),  
it still doesn't behave correctly. I compulsively clear my terminal  
screen whenever I don't need the current contents, but with FX in  
LESS, `git status` throws the output at the bottom of my terminal,  
leaving a lot of blank space at the top. This is extremely irritating  
to me.

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.

-Kevin Ballard

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