Re: [PATCH/RFC] "git --less cmd" to page anywhere

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Dear diary, on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:05:59AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> said that...
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > This allows you to say:
> > 
> > 	git --less diff v2.6.16-rc5..
> 
> I've seriously considered something like that, although you chose a pretty 
> strange - and long - flag.
> 
> I was thinking something like "git -p log -p" (the first "-p" is for 
> "paginate" - think "dir/p" in old DOS times, but we could claim it is for 
> "pager" so that people don't laugh at us)

Actually, you made a case in the misty past that cg-log should just
stuff things through a pager by default and I ended up finding that
extremely convenient - what is the reason git log does not do the same?

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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