Re: [PATCH] Document how to tell git to not launch a pager

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Jul 19, 2007, 11:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707191235490.32611@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707191211010.14781@racer.site>

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
>
>> [...] I also wonder why use of a pager is default in git anyway. At
>> least I find it to be contrary to what I am used to on the Unix command
>> line.
>
> It was evidently liked unilaterally amongst the big whigs in the git
> community.  Me too, I like it (which says nothing about my hair style).
> Often it annoys me tremendously that all the other programs like make, ls,
> etc. do not have this nice "-p" flag.

I love it. It's currently playing merry havoc with my Subversion usage at work though. I've got so used to git never chucking things off the top of the screen that I keep forgetting to run 'svn ... | less'.

Also searching in a console isn't anywhere near as easy.

-- 
Julian

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