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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Sebastian Celis <sebastian@sebastiancelis.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate option
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:02:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100214120235.GC3499@progeny.tock> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100214115430.GA1849@progeny.tock>

The --paginate option is meant to negate the effect of an explicit or
implicit pager.<cmd> = false setting.  Thus it turns the pager on if
output is going to a terminal rather than unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
Noticed while testing.  (It might be nice to have an --always-paginate
facility to allow debugging by writing output from a pager into
something that is not a terminal.)

 Documentation/git.txt |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 01c4631..f26641a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@ help ...`.
 
 -p::
 --paginate::
-	Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER).
+	Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER) if standard
+	output is a terminal.  This overrides the `pager.<cmd>`
+	configuration options (see the "Configuration Mechanism" section
+	below).
 
 --no-pager::
 	Do not pipe git output into a pager.
@@ -401,7 +404,8 @@ people.  Here is an example:
 ------------
 
 Various commands read from the configuration file and adjust
-their operation accordingly.
+their operation accordingly.  See linkgit:git-config[1] for a
+list.
 
 
 Identifier Terminology
-- 
1.7.0

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-14 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-13 21:14 'git svn log' no longer uses the pager Sebastian Celis
2010-02-13 23:51 ` Jeff King
2010-02-14 11:54   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-14 11:55     ` [PATCH 1/6] Fix 'git var' usage synopsis Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  2:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-15  2:36       ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  4:47         ` Jeff King
2010-02-14 11:59     ` [PATCH 2/6] Make 'git var GIT_PAGER' always print the configured pager Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  5:00       ` Jeff King
2010-02-15  5:44         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  7:57           ` Jeff King
2010-02-14 12:02     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-02-15  4:55       ` [PATCH 3/6] git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate option Jeff King
2010-02-14 12:06     ` [PATCH 4/6] git svn: Fix launching of pager Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  7:58       ` Eric Wong
2010-02-14 12:07     ` [PATCH 5/6] am: " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  2:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-15  2:59       ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  3:25         ` [PATCH v3 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  4:42           ` Jeff King
2010-02-15  5:04             ` [PATCH v4 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  5:12               ` Jeff King
2010-02-15 20:26               ` Johannes Sixt
2010-02-14 12:13     ` [PATCH 6/6] tests: Add tests for automatic use " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  5:10       ` Jeff King
2010-02-15  5:35         ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-15  5:37           ` Jeff King

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