On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:54:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Until this patch, doing something like: > > > > git config alias.foo log > > git config pager.foo /some/specific/pager > > > > would not respect pager.foo at all. > > Is it a good thing? Looks too confusing and I am having a hard time to > decide if this is "just because we could" or "because we need to be able > to do this for such and such reasons". I don't have a particular use for it myself. However, I don't see what's confusing about it. Would would you expect the above commands to do with respect to paging? I think the behavior after my patch does what users will expect, whether they have configured pager.foo, pager.log, or nothing. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html