From: dag@cray.com
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:54:45 GMT
Subject: Re: (minor concern) git using the pager should not be a default
Message-ID: <nngligvdk0q.fsf@transit.us.cray.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd329wpt0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> In other words, Porcelain (roughly speaking, those that page by
> default when their standard output is terminal), are not "command
> line applications"; they have a layer on top with a built-in UI.

Is "status" considered a plumbing layer command?  Because I have often
wondered why it does not use the pager by default.  I pipe it through
less all the time and it's kind of annoying that it works differently
than everything else.

                                -Dave