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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: format-patch with pager.format-patch=true gets very confused
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:20:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160717192019.GA29262@x> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607171438030.28832@virtualbox>

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 02:41:48PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> > git-config(1) documents the ability to enable or disable the pager (or
> > set a command-specific pager) for any command by setting
> > pager.<cmd>=true.  For most commands, this seems to work as expected.
> > However, setting pager.format-patch=true (or setting it to any specific
> > pager) breaks badly: the pager spawns, with no output in it, and the
> > pager doesn't respond to keystrokes (which makes it difficult to quit).
> > 
> > I think this may occur because format-patch's "reopen_stdout" interacts
> > badly with the pager.
> > 
> > I think it makes sense for "format-patch --stdout" to respect
> > pager.format-patch, but for format-patch *without* stdout to ignore
> > pager.* and *never* spawn a pager, given that its only output (the list
> > of patch files) goes to "realstdout".
> 
> As per http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/299451,
> the `js/log-to-diffopt-file` patch series will be merged to `master` soon.
> This patch series avoids the reopen() altogether and should fix the
> problem you experience.
> 
> Since it is already in `next`, it should be relatively easy for you to
> build and confirm. Would you kindly do that?

I can confirm that that fixes the problem.  Thanks!

- Josh Triplett

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-17 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-17  2:56 format-patch with pager.format-patch=true gets very confused Josh Triplett
2016-07-17 12:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-17 19:20   ` Josh Triplett [this message]

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