From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:31:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [Feature request] "Hooks" for git log
Message-ID: <xmqqblp1fjzb.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87951584041001@myt5-5e0e3f348369.qloud-c.yandex.net>

Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> writes:

>> When pager is in use, git log loads commits lazily when you scroll down.
>> I find this feature rather crucial for working with any long history, and
>> I don't see how to achieve this with pipe.
>
> Nvm, passing to less -R makes it pause when needed. I've never realized it
> was that simple.

Heh, after all once you realize "git log" internally pipes its
output to the pager, doing the same thing yourself should become
trivial ;-)