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Re: [PATCH] Replace git --paginate by git --pager[=PAGER_CMD].

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Aug 21, 2007, 08:51 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Personally, I like to read "git --paginate log" better than to read "git 
> --pager log".  So I would not unnecessarily deprecate --paginate.  It's 
> not like it hurts or something.

It doesn't "hurt", but having several options to do the same thing is useless and confusing (someone reading here about --paginate and there about --pager may not immediately notice that one is an alias for the other).

Anyway, how often do you type or read "git --paginate log"?
-- 
Matthieu
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  2. Matthieu MoyAug 19, 2007
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 19, 2007
  4. Brian GernhardtAug 19, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2007
  6. Matthieu MoyAug 19, 2007
  7. Adam RobenAug 19, 2007
  8. David KastrupAug 19, 2007
  9. Matthieu MoyAug 20, 2007
  10. Jakub NarebskiAug 21, 2007
  11. Replace git --paginate by git --pager[=PAGER_CMD].Matthieu Moy, Aug 21, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinAug 21, 2007
  13. Matthieu MoyAug 21, 2007
  14. David KastrupAug 21, 2007
  15. Alex RiesenAug 19, 2007

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