Junio C Hamano(gitster@xxxxxxxxx)@220608-03:01: > Having said all that, I have to say I am regretting to have accepted that > patch to enable pager on status, not because it bothers me personally (it > doesn't primarily because I practically never run git-status because I > consider the command useless and living almost always in Emacs helps), but > because in principle changing anything that existing users are used to is > bad. > > 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'd really like to see this. Setting core.pager to `less -FSRX` or similar is not useful for me - I *want* to have -X for eg. `git diff`, but I don't want paging at all for status. This was quite a nasty change to sneak on people I think. Tim -- Tim Stoakes -- 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
