Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> you can blame the person calling git log and waiting until it
> finishes. See the list archives for reasons why.
... and earlier:
> Usually the output of git-log -- even with pathname
> filtering -- starts almost instantaneous, and is piped to your pager.
The pager ('less') in a console is not a good solution for everone:
- People used to GUI editors (kate, nedit, ...) miss a scroll bar for
navigation. You can't use kate or nedit as a pager.
- PAGER="vi -" also reads all input before it displays anything.
- PAGER="xless" likewise.
- In Emacs shell-mode, with PAGER="", you see the output as it is produced,
but it's disturbing to work in a buffer which is growing, where the scrollbar
continues to change its position.
It's OK for many people, but not for everyone.
Bruno
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