Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:31:30AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Guess what.  I have a similar problem, only it is that my "git status" 
output is _always_ too long, so I always have to page it.

Once upon a time, Junio applied a patch that implied -p with status.  I 
was overjoyed.  He reverted that patch later.  Yes, exactly.

So I end up doing "git config --global ps '-p status'" on every new 

If only somebody had written a "pager.status" configuration variable,
you could use that. Oh wait. I did. And it shipped in v1.6.0.

account (I usually even forget to curse!), and I really cannot see why you 
do not do the equivalent "git config fullgrep grep --full-tree" in your 
repositories (or even the global thing).

The further benefit is that we stop talking about breaking backwards 
compatibility, and we stop talking about making it hard for Git experts to 
help newbies.

I guess you missed the part of the thread where I already discussed
this. It was here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133672

-Peff