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From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposal about --help options and man calls
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:42:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469F4016.9090402@midwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ejj5wats.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup wrote:
> So I set GIT_PAGER to cat and hoped that it would get git to behave. 

FYI, you can also set GIT_PAGER to an empty value to completely disable 
paging. However, "cat" does the same thing -- it is special cased in 
pager.c to do the same thing as an empty value.

Hmm, I guess that could stand to be documented. Patch forthcoming.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-18 21:50 Proposal about --help options and man calls David Kastrup
2007-07-18 23:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-18 23:28   ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 10:42     ` Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-07-19  3:49   ` Brian Gernhardt

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