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Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 7, 2006, 00:05 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061703380.5498@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> This allows you to say:
> 
> 	git --less diff v2.6.16-rc5..

I've seriously considered something like that, although you chose a pretty strange - and long - flag.

I was thinking something like "git -p log -p" (the first "-p" is for "paginate" - think "dir/p" in old DOS times, but we could claim it is for "pager" so that people don't laugh at us)

		Linus
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Message 8 of 12 in “Support for configurable git command aliases (v2)”
  1. Support for configurable git command aliases (v2)Petr Baudis, Jun 4, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisJun 4, 2006
  3. Martin MaresJun 4, 2006
  4. Petr BaudisJun 4, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2006
  7. "git --less cmd" to page anywhereJunio C Hamano, Jun 6, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 7, 2006
  9. Petr BaudisJun 7, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsJun 7, 2006
  11. Martin LanghoffJun 7, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsJun 7, 2006

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