Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes

Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:28:34AM CEST, I got a letter
where Daniel Jacobowitz [off-list ref] told me that...

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:00:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

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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? :-)

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