From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.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: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:00:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504202056310.2344@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050421033526.GA9404@nevyn.them.org>
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?
And as I pointed out, if the output is not a tty, then both less and more
automatically turn into cat, so there's no difference. This change _only_
triggers for a tty, and I dare you to show a single relevant project where
it's ok to scroll thousands of lines.
Even git-pasky, which is just a two-week-old project right now outputs
4338 lines of output to "git log".
Unpaginated? You must be kidding.
(But if you are _that_ fast a reader, then hey, use "PAGER=cat", and
you'll find yourself happy).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 3:54 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 [this message]
2005-04-21 4:22 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-21 5:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-21 4:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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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