On Jul 21, 2008, at 19:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
(2) Then why are we even allowing to configure the plumbing to page?
I don't have an opinion on the the appropriateness of paging various commands, but to solve the problem of scripts getting tripped up by the paging, couldn't the plumping check if STDOUT is a tty and only do the paging if so?
(In Perl "page_output(...) if $pager_configured and -t STDOUT") - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/ -- 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
