From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git: add -N as a short option for --no-pager
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:25:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08882cea-5dab-3cc7-33ac-cf938253a34a@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh8o05evv.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
Am 25.04.2018 um 02:05 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
>> It is not uncommon to request that the output remains visible in
>> the terminal. For this, the option --no-pager can be used. But
>> it is a bit cumbersome to type, even when command completion is
>> available. Provide a short option, -N, to make the option easier
>> accessible.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
>> ---
>
> Heh, I used to append "|cat", which is four keystrokes that is a bit
> shorter than " --no-pager", but that is only acceptable when you do
> not care about colored output ;-)
>
> I am not absolutely certain about the choice of a single letter. I
> already checked we do not use "git -N cmd" for anything else right
> now, so I am certain about the availability, but I am not sure if
> capital 'N' is the best choice, when the other side is lowercase 'p'
> (and more importantly, the other side 'p' has mneomonic value for
> 'pagination', but 'N' merely stands for 'no' and could be negating
> anything, not related to pagination). But I agree that a short-hand
> would be welcome.
I considered -P, but thought that it would better be reserved for
something related to "paths". We have --{html,man,info}-path, which
would be served better with -[HMI]. That leaves --exec-path, which we
would probably abbreviate as -x or -X. So, -P is perhaps not that bad
after all.
We could also choose +p, for which there is some precedent in other
POSIX tools to mean negated -p, but not in git, I think.
Implementationwise, it is not that trivial, either, because the section
handling options is guarded by a check that the word begins with a dash.
Perhaps --no-pager means also "unpaginated" (-u, -U), "linear" (-l, -L),
"streamed" (-s, -S). Other ideas, anyone?
>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
>> index 4767860e72..17b50b0dc6 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git.txt
>> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>> [verse]
>> 'git' [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>]
>> [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
>> - [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
>> + [-p|--paginate|-N|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
>> [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
>> [--super-prefix=<path>]
>> <command> [<args>]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-24 16:59 [PATCH] git: add -N as a short option for --no-pager Johannes Sixt
2018-04-25 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-25 5:45 ` Beat Bolli <bbolli@ewanet.ch>
2018-04-25 6:25 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2018-04-25 7:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-25 19:30 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-05-01 11:41 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-04-25 9:21 ` Phillip Wood
2018-04-25 19:31 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-05-01 11:25 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-05-03 17:15 ` [PATCH v2] git: add -P " Johannes Sixt
2018-05-03 20:06 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-05-04 5:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-21 12:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
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