On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:09:34PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > <dag@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Is "status" considered a plumbing layer command? Because I have often > > wondered why it does not use the pager by default. I pipe it through > > less all the time and it's kind of annoying that it works differently > > than everything else. > > I would be pretty annoyed if git status would page by default. This one has been debated for a while. People used to complain that it did not page, and then we turned on the pager, and then people complained that it did page. I wrote 4e10738 (Allow per-command pager config, 2008-07-03) to help settle it, and now you can do: git config pager.status true if you really want it. As of 9bad723 (allow command-specific pagers in pager.<cmd>, 2010-11-17), you can even set it to an arbitrary pager for each git command. With all those options, it's amazing that we can still have threads about what should page. :) -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