Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)

[Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El 3/7/2008, a las 21:08, Jeff King escribió:

> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:37:30PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
> > > > This [changing git status to use the pager automatically] was  
> > > > quite a
> > > > nasty change to sneak on people I think.
> > >
> > > Well, I think that a command producing pages and pages of output
> > > without stopping is useless.  Therefore, _I_ maintain that it makes
> > > tons of  sense.
> >
> > Ditto. For me, the change was very welcome. Sure, usually the status
> > output is short, but on those occasions where it isn't (big file
> > reorganizations etc) I was quite sick of doing the "git status, oops
> > that output was too long let's try again, git -p status" dance. It  
> > was
> > also incongruous with my very first experiences with Git, where I had
> > been pleasantly surprised that "git log" automatically invoked the
> > pager whereas "svn log" just spewed output into my console until ^C.
>
> I think there is not much point in discussing whether "git status"
> should use a pager. It is obvious at this point that some people love
> it, and some people despise it, and it seems to be a matter of  
> personal
> preference. The only sane way forward seems to be configurable paging.

I completely agree. I just don't like it when people use words like  
"nasty" and "sneak" to describe a change that was discussed in one  
short and one long thread prior to being incorporated. But you're  
right; there's no sense in discussing the "whether" any more.

Cheers,
Wincent


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