On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:41:05AM -0400, Kevin Ballard wrote: > c8af1de9cfa0a5678ae766777e0f905e60b69fda makes git status use a pager. I > think this is a horrible choice. Now when I type `git status` I have to > type "q" to get back to my shell, and I've lost the output of the pager. > It makes sense for commands with long output like `git log`, but `git > status` rarely has output longer than my terminal's height, and so making > it use the pager simply detracts from its functionality. > > Does anybody have any comments or opinions about this either way? I agree with you; I don't like it at all. Probably whether or not to use a pager for a given command should be controlled by a "pager.<cmd>" config variable. In the meantime, try adding FX to your LESS environment variable. -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
