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List:       fossil-users
Subject:    Re: [fossil-users] Features request
From:       Brian Smith <brian () linuxfood ! net>
Date:       2010-07-01 5:21:33
Message-ID: AANLkTikZCeNumw_J5yoOD6tl6NWEi-JRM3SyUtMaEy_O () mail ! gmail ! com
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I don't actually believe it does. IIRC, it just simply calls out to $PAGER.

-B

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Michael Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> On 30 June 2010 21:24, Joshua Paine <joshua@letterblock.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/30/2010 01:52 AM, Ruslan Popov wrote:
>> > When I use git I like its feature to do 'more' showing huge diff.
>> > Especially it would be convinient for fossil on Windows.
>>
>> `fossil diff | more` =C2=A0Windows doesn't have much of a command line
>> environment, but that much at least works on my Windows XP test machine.
>
> I remember when the Unix philosophy was espoused as "a collection of tool=
s,
> each of which does one thing well, connected together by pipes".
> Now it seems Unix is "a collection of tools, each of which is bloated wit=
h
> overlapping functionality that is none of it very good".
> Why does git replicate functionality in a utility that's been in Unix (an=
d
> Windows (and OS/2 (and DOS (and even the DEC OSes in some form or
> another)))) since time immemorial?
> --
> "Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions=
 of
> entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese peop=
le.
> It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."
> --Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
>
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