Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:28:34AM CEST, I got a letter
where Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:00:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > My logic: it's a lot more intuitive to say "cg-log | less" to get
> > > paginated output than it is to say "cg-log | cat" to get unpaginated
> > > output.
> >
> > I disagree.
> >
> > There is _never_ any valid situation where you do "cg-log" with
> > unpaginated output to a tty.
> >
> > In _any_ real system you'll be getting thousands of lines of output.
> > Possibly millions. unpaginated? What the hell are you talking about?
>
> OK, so I'm crazy. I must have hallucinated doing this sort of thing on
> a regular basis... :-) Examples: terminals with good scrollback,
> screen, script. Small repositories. Irritation at less's habit of
> using the alternate xterm buffer, whatever the technical term for that
> is.
... Plan9. But I guess you won't even have a pager there. ;-)
A little off-topic, anyone knows how to turn off that damn alternate
screen thing on the xterm level? (Or any other level which makes _all_
programs not to use it.)
More seriously, I think Linus' patch is fine; the usage in scripts is
not affected, and alternatives were suggested. When we have cg-admin, I
might even let you set per-repository git-specific PAGER (which you
could set to be even some fancy script which would parse the stuff, open
a cute window and display stuff graphically, or whatever).
Linus, ahem, could you please sign off your patch? :-)
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor
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