Re: js/no-pager-shorthand [

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 2, 2018, 01:43 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4ljqygrd.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cS9pKSXG-9uZo7dhnz2yAnv9VnnuS_B-DMG2cWmGuKcow@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

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> Although paged output is generally nice, I frequently find myself
> typing --no-pager numerous times during the day, so I, for one,
> welcome having a short option (and would be sad to see this patch
> retracted). As with Hannes, I too find -P a reasonably intuitive and
> easy-to-remember short option.

Yeah, we often see in other people's tools that the -X option means opposite of the -x option, and even though "git --paginate" may not have short-and-sweet "git -p" short-hand (or does it?) it would be natural to expect "-p" to mean that, and I do not find it a stretch for "-P" to mean opposite of it by extension.

    ... goes and looks ...

Ah, "-p" does mean "--paginate", it seems. So I am not opposed to resurrecting the patch with s/N/P/, if that is what people want. On the other hand, I am perfectly OK if the patch stays retracted.