Øystein Walle [off-list ref] writes:
This is for consistency with other porcelain commands such as 'log'.
I don't think consistency with other porcelain is a sufficient argument.
Many commands purposely don't use the pager by default because they will
normally have a short output.
Users can already set "pager.show-branch" to get the behavior you
introduce in the patch. The question is more: will users prefer having
the pager by default for this particular command? I don't use
show-branch enough to answer by myself, but probably the answer is yes.
(This is not an objection, just to make sure you have all the elements)
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