From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Proposal about --help options and man calls Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:50:23 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85y7hdwfds.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 18 23:50:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBHPx-0003WK-KH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:50:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757779AbXGRVum (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757580AbXGRVum (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:50:42 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:53556 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757096AbXGRVul (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:50:41 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IBHPn-00018a-5A for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:50:35 +0200 Received: from dslb-084-061-086-214.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.61.86.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:50:35 +0200 Received: from dak by dslb-084-061-086-214.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:50:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-061-086-214.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i";/yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:74vB9HqHNbrFKu826OPmblwineA= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Frequently, git somecommand --help will call the man command to display help pages. I think that when it does so, it should pass the value of the GIT_PAGER variable copied into the PAGER variable: the paging happens on behalf of git here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum