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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
To: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify pager.<cmd> configuration
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:38:06 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0808240028450.28567@harper.uchicago.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0808240019050.28567@harper.uchicago.edu>

It was not obvious from the text that pager.<cmd> is a boolean
setting.

While we're changing the description, make some other
improvements: lest we forget and fret, clarify that -p and
pager.<cmd> do not kick in when stdout is not a tty; point to
related core.pager and GIT_PAGER settings; use renamed --paginate
option.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
---
 This is not related to the core.pager documentation patch I just
 sent; it just caught my eye as I was reading over the file.

 Documentation/config.txt |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 88638f7..b12e695 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -988,9 +988,11 @@ pack.packSizeLimit::
 	linkgit:git-repack[1].
 
 pager.<cmd>::
-	Allows to set your own pager preferences for each command, overriding
-	the default. If `\--pager` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command
-	line, it takes precedence over this option.
+	Allows turning on or off pagination of the output of a
+	particular git subcommand when outputing to a tty.  If
+	`\--paginate` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command line,
+	it takes precedence over this option.  To disable pagination for
+	all commands, set `core.pager` or 'GIT_PAGER' to "`cat`".
 
 pull.octopus::
 	The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
-- 
1.6.0.481.g9ef3

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-24  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22 12:25 [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS Anders Melchiorsen
2008-08-23  5:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-23  8:28   ` Anders Melchiorsen
2008-08-23  9:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-23 10:21       ` Anders Melchiorsen
2008-08-24  5:28     ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-24  5:38       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2008-08-24 18:59       ` Junio C Hamano

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