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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:56:48PM -0700, Ask Bj=C3=B8rn Hansen wrote:

>> (2) Then why are we even allowing to configure the plumbing to page?
>
> I don't have an opinion on the the appropriateness of paging various =
=20
> commands, but to solve the problem of scripts getting tripped up by t=
he=20
> paging, couldn't the plumping check if STDOUT is a tty and only do th=
e=20
> paging if so?
>
> (In Perl "page_output(...) if $pager_configured and -t STDOUT")

We already do this, so "git status >/dev/null" produces the correct exi=
t
code. But scripts don't necessarily redirect stdout.

-Peff