From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:55:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Finally implement "git log --follow"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706211654100.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706210842340.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> > 
> > Bad: Currently git-log does not support --stdin option, required IMHO
> > when git-log is runned by a tool, not a user, due to the possibility
> > of a very long command line.
> 
> I do think we should just fix this. The patch to do so can't be *that* 
> bad.

The only quirk here is that "--stdin" makes no sense with a pager. 
Therefore, you'd have to move the automatic pager invocation to _after_ 
option parsing.

Ciao,
Dscho