From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20050420205633.GC19112@pasky.ji.cz> <20050420211919.GA20129@kroah.com> <20050420215117.GJ19112@pasky.ji.cz> <20050420222815.GM19112@pasky.ji.cz> <20050421033526.GA9404@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Petr Baudis , Greg KH , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 21 05:54:58 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOSlt-00056M-KV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:54:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261196AbVDUD6w (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:58:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261204AbVDUD6w (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:58:52 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:41151 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261196AbVDUD6u (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:58:50 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3L3wjs4005306 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:58:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3L3wiqT013563; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:58:45 -0700 To: Daniel Jacobowitz In-Reply-To: <20050421033526.GA9404@nevyn.them.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.35__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.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