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

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:29:11AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

Nice try but, "grep" and "status" are apples and oranges comparision.

Yes, I think you are right that the existence of pager.* does not
necessarily imply that there should be a config option for grep. But
that makes his example even more irrelevant: he is advocating that I use
a solution in this instance because he uses it in another instance, when
that solution is not even necessary in the other instance (and as I have
hopefully already made clear, is in my opinion inferior).

It is probably better to stay on the topic of the grep option, though.

-Peff