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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:

> > This marks diff-files as FORBID_PAGER; I will leave it to others to
> > fight about which commands should have it. But it doesn't make sense to
> > mark "status" since some people obviously _want_ the paging there.
> 
> Why not "simply" forbid the pager when output is not a terminal ?

We already do that (see pager.c:53). The original poster still had a
problem, but I don't know if it was for actual usage or simply a toy

  $ git status
  $ echo $?
  $ echo "why don't exit codes work in status?" | mail git@vger

question.

-Peff