Re: Perl warning in git-svn (git v1.5.3-rc7-16-ge340d7d)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 31, 2007, 23:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709010049490.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46D8A886.5060701@vilain.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> I was almost going to suggest us to change "*.color = true" to
> >> mean 'auto'.  Because git can internally use pager and has a way
> >> for the user to control enabling/disabling colors when the pager
> >> is used, there is no _logical_ reason to enable pager when the
> >> output is not going to a tty.
> >>     
> >
> > Gaah, sorry; I meant "no logical reason to enable _color_ when
> > the output is not going to a tty".
> 
> Sure there is, when the output is "less -R"

This argument was already raised by Junio himself. But your _option_ to use "git log | less -R" does not make it a good option. Since "git log" is so much more elegant already.

Hth, Dscho