From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:12:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606061711000.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <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