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

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 7, 2006, 00:12 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061711000.5498@g5.osdl.org>
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<20060607000816.GY10488@pasky.or.cz>
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> Actually, you made a case in the misty past that cg-log should just
> stuff things through a pager by default and I ended up finding that
> extremely convenient - what is the reason git log does not do the same?

"git log" does, "git diff" does not (and yeah, I just chose a bad example, I meant "git -p diff -p")

For "git diff", pagination by default is definitely not the right thing to do, but it's something you often end up wanting.

		Linus
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  1. Support for configurable git command aliases (v2)Petr Baudis, Jun 4, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisJun 4, 2006
  3. Martin MaresJun 4, 2006
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  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2006
  7. "git --less cmd" to page anywhereJunio C Hamano, Jun 6, 2006
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