Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)

> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:37:30PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>>>> This [changing git status to use the pager automatically] was  
>>>> quite a
>>>> nasty change to sneak on people I think.
>>>
>>> Well, I think that a command producing pages and pages of output
>>> without stopping is useless.  Therefore, _I_ maintain that it makes
>>> tons of  sense.
>>
>> Ditto. For me, the change was very welcome. Sure, usually the status
>> output is short, but on those occasions where it isn't (big file
>> reorganizations etc) I was quite sick of doing the "git status, oops
>> that output was too long let's try again, git -p status" dance. It  
>> was
>> also incongruous with my very first experiences with Git, where I had
>> been pleasantly surprised that "git log" automatically invoked the
>> pager whereas "svn log" just spewed output into my console until ^C.
>
> I think there is not much point in discussing whether "git status"
> should use a pager. It is obvious at this point that some people love
> it, and some people despise it, and it seems to be a matter of  
> personal
> preference. The only sane way forward seems to be configurable paging.