Hi Hannes, On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 30.04.2018 um 05:25 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > > * js/no-pager-shorthand (2018-04-25) 1 commit > > - git: add -N as a short option for --no-pager > > > > "git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter > > option. Now it does. > > > > Will merge to 'next'. > > I consider your argument that -N is only an abbreviation for an unspecific > "no" a valid one. So, I would like to be sure that we are not painting us into > the wrong corner by squatting -N for --no-pager. > > I find -P is not that bad after all. To me, `-P` would suggest the positive action --pager rather than the negative --no-pager. I wonder whether `-!p` would be better/feasible? Your use case is quite the corner case, I hope you realize that, as it seems that everybody else is fine with having -FRX as default options for `less`... And with copy/pasting from the `less` output. So introducing a sweet short option for --no-pager, for the benefit of maybe even only one user, seems quite... unusual. Granted, you cannot simply introduce an alias for `git --no-pager`. But maybe that is what we should do? Maybe we should start supporting aliases without specifying commands, opening the door for things like `git -c ui.color=false`, too. Then you could add `alias.n=--no-pager` and call `git n show HEAD`, and the -N and -P short options could still wait for a widely-popular option to require a short name. Ciao, Dscho
