From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: 'git diff HEAD' pager quirks Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:01:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4581C9CA.5060207@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Greylist: delayed 3987 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:08:14 EST User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GuzgY-0007VI-KO for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:08:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751740AbWLNXIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:08:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751742AbWLNXIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:08:15 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:50436 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751741AbWLNXIO (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:08:14 -0500 Received: from cpe-065-190-194-075.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.194.75] helo=[10.10.10.10]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1GuyeA-0003XG-R5 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:01:47 +0000 To: Git Mailing List Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org So, after a 'yum upgrade' brought me git-core-1.4.4.2-2.fc6, I discovered that "git diff HEAD" will produce paged output, if at a tty. Nice, I like the improvement. However, when there is no output at all (nothing dirty in working dir), "git diff HEAD" will sometimes invoke $PAGER ("/usr/bin/less" here) __anyway__. This causes the cursor to jump down 20-30 lines, before returning the command prompt. Annoying. Example follows. Jeff ------------------------------------------------- [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git diff HEAD [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ --------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git diff HEAD [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$