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Matthieu Moy, Sun, Aug 19, 2007 19:26:07 +0200:
> I think that deserves an less-hacky, and documented way. I'd suggest a
> --no-pager, or --dont-paginate, that would do the opposite of -p as a
> global option for git.

Ack.

Besides, some platforms having no way to unset an environment
variable, a really cumbersome to work with them (Cygwin/Win32, yes),
so this switch is actually the only way to achive something stable.