On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 03:01:07AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff had a patch to allow boolean configuration variable "pager.<command>" > to override the built-in pager settings during 1.5.6 cycle, and I think it > was a reasonable approach to take. People who want to page output from > git-status can then set "pager.status = true" in their configuration (and > then we can revert c8af1de (make git-status use a pager, 2008-04-23)). > Alternatively we could keep the current status-quo for the default, and > people can say "pager.status = false" in their configuration. I have been running with the patch for a month or two, and it works fine for controlling the pager. Unfortunately, there is a nasty interaction in the git wrapper with reading the config file early, and we end up not calculating the GIT_DIR and worktree in the same way. I think this is part of a larger problem which needs solving, but everytime I look at it, my eyes start bleeding (and I have to admit, since the patch does work, I have forgotten how annoyed I was at the paging behavior in the first place, and I don't have as much motivation to work on it). I think this is deeply related to the "git config alias.st status && cd .git && git st" problem, which is also on my long-term todo. So I'll see if I can do something about it during this release cycle. -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
