From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:28:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050421042833.GA10934@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504202056310.2344@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:00:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > My logic: it's a lot more intuitive to say "cg-log | less" to get
> > paginated output than it is to say "cg-log | cat" to get unpaginated
> > output.
>
> I disagree.
>
> There is _never_ any valid situation where you do "cg-log" with
> unpaginated output to a tty.
>
> In _any_ real system you'll be getting thousands of lines of output.
> Possibly millions. unpaginated? What the hell are you talking about?
OK, so I'm crazy. I must have hallucinated doing this sort of thing on
a regular basis... :-) Examples: terminals with good scrollback,
screen, script. Small repositories. Irritation at less's habit of
using the alternate xterm buffer, whatever the technical term for that
is.
But hey, you'll use it more often than I will by far.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 20:56 [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:03 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:19 ` Greg KH
2005-04-20 21:51 ` Mike Taht
2005-04-20 21:58 ` Joshua T. Corbin
2005-04-20 21:51 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-20 22:07 ` Steven Cole
2005-04-20 22:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-20 22:28 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 23:04 ` Greg KH
2005-04-21 0:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 3:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-21 2:45 ` Sean
2005-04-21 4:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 4:22 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-21 5:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-21 4:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-04-21 6:49 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-21 14:21 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-21 16:42 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-24 0:09 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-21 5:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-21 4:27 ` Sean
2005-04-21 5:29 ` Greg KH
2005-04-24 0:12 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-21 2:48 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-04-21 18:15 ` Removing command dispatcher (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes) David A. Wheeler
2005-04-21 7:49 ` [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes Ingo Molnar
2005-04-25 11:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-21 2:53 ` Bryan Donlan
2005-04-21 7:36 ` Petr Baudis
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