El 12/8/2007, a las 15:02, Steven Grimm escribió:
David Kastrup wrote:
I think I would call that a mistake. However, I don't see that
fixing
it would actually be useful: if a pager gets called, this means that
git-diff might die with SIGPIPE (when the user quits the pager), and
that in turn has pretty much no meaning. So one really needs to
redirect the output, anyway.
It does sort of make one wonder, though, if there's much point ever
launching a pager when git-diff is run with --quiet -- it will
never produce any output to page, so running a pager is guaranteed
to always be a waste of cycles.
Yes, I thought the same thing when I read in the initial release
notes (<http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
RelNotes-1.5.1.txt>) that the "--quiet" option was explicitly "meant
for scripted use", where naturally you don't want or need a pager...
turns out I was writing a script, you see, and I wanted to test the
commands out manually to be sure they did what I thought they would...
But as you say, refactoring this to bypass the pager when "--quiet"
is passed may be unpleasantly complicated.
Cheers,
Wincent
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