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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:32:52 -0500 (EST)
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > We might want to add a pair of built-in internal aliases though:
> > 
> > 	[alias]
> >         	cat = cat-file -p
> >                 less = -p cat-file -p
> > 
> > or have these as samples in template .git/config file.
> 
> I sent a patch which makes "git show" have that functionality, and 
> frankly, I disagree "less" would be a good name for it. It uses the 
> _pager_, which is not always "less", and besides, what it does is to show 
> that particular blob. So obviously, I think my patch is the best approach.

I think your approach is pretty sensible too.