Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] use the pager in 'add -p'

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> writes:

> Hello Junio,
>
> On 2024-06-02 18:36, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> A possibility is to phrase it like so:
>>     | - pipe the current hunk to the program (or "%s" by default)
>> and fill %s with the program you'd use if not given, i.e. initially
>> the value of the GIT_PAGER but updated to the last used program
>> after the user uses "|<program>" form to specify one.
>
> The value of GIT_PAGER (or the <program>) can be a rather long string,
> so it would have to be stripped down to the base command, but it would
> be rather error-prone and the printed information would become much less
> informative that way.

I'd probably just say $GIT_PAGER instead of its expansion if we were
go that route.