Re: [PATCH] show git tag output in pager

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:37:49AM +0200, Michal Vyskocil wrote:

quoted

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:19:39PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

quoted

The commit message should explain why this is needed, and in particular
why you prefer this to setting pager.tag in your ~/.gitconfig.

Opps! I read a documentation, but I did not realize this works for all
commands and not only for them calling setup_pager(). Then sorry, no
change is needed.

I don't think you want to set pager.tag. It will invoke the pager for
all tag subcommands, including tag creation and deletion.

That's the kind of argument/discussion I was expecting in the commit
message.

I think instead, you want some way for commands to say "OK, I'm in a
subcommand that might or might not want a pager now".

Right.

I like the try_subcommand_pager idea. Ideally, there would also be a
nice mechanism to set defaults for subcommands, so that "git tag
<whatever>" does the right thing without configuration.

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