From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: Proposal about --help options and man calls Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:42:30 +0800 Message-ID: <469F4016.9090402@midwinter.com> References: <85y7hdwfds.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7v644h715y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <85ejj5wats.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 19 12:42:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBTSw-000811-AK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:42:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752640AbXGSKme (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:42:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755248AbXGSKme (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:42:34 -0400 Received: from 91.86.32.216.static.reverse.layeredtech.com ([216.32.86.91]:52173 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752278AbXGSKmd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:42:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 17167 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2007 10:42:33 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200606; d=midwinter.com; b=vkmSqmDhhL4zRIfjg0vbcjQniOBu6IfyMN3PkEebunPpLQqvGZHL80LegcCsJnrL ; Received: from localhost (HELO sgrimm-mbp.local) (koreth@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jul 2007 10:42:32 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) In-Reply-To: <85ejj5wats.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > So I set GIT_PAGER to cat and hoped that it would get git to behave. FYI, you can also set GIT_PAGER to an empty value to completely disable paging. However, "cat" does the same thing -- it is special cased in pager.c to do the same thing as an empty value. Hmm, I guess that could stand to be documented. Patch forthcoming. -Steve