Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
Personally, I like to read "git --paginate log" better than to read "git
--pager log". So I would not unnecessarily deprecate --paginate. It's
not like it hurts or something.
It doesn't "hurt", but having several options to do the same thing is
useless and confusing (someone reading here about --paginate and there
about --pager may not immediately notice that one is an alias for the
other).
Anyway, how often do you type or read "git --paginate log"?
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Matthieu