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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 7, 2006, 03:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606062011030.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90606061929i68073677i686a3c1934ed64b1@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 
> Why is it not a good default? Unless I expect it to be shorter than
> the terminal, I always tack "| less" after it. Except when I tack ">
> foo.patch" and then the auto-pager knows what to do anyway.

I often tack "| less" after it in some situations, but in other situations I _never_ do.

I often use "git diff" as a way to see that my tree is clean. Sure, I could do "git status", but if it's not clean, it's usually something small, so I want to know what I changed last. At that point, a default pager would be very annoying.

The "more" behaviour (which only paginates unto the end) might work for me (ie the "git diff" auto-pager would act like "more" or "less -EX")

I dunno.

		Linus