Re: git status in clean working dir

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:06:43AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 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.

As you said in another branch of the thread, this part would be solved by
having parent/child being reverted.

Now, for the case where diff-files can have a pager if the user shoots
himself in the foot, if the output is not a terminal and pager.c already
does the right thing, I don't see where diff-files having a pager will
be a problem.

If diff-files' output is a terminal, it's obviously intended to be
displayed, be it in a script or not. But most of the time, its output
will be piped, thus not triggering the pager anyways.

And for diff-files' exit code, well, see the first paragraph.

Mike