From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:21:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere Message-ID: 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