> I've noticed that Git by default puts long output through "less" as a > pager. I don't like that, but this is not the time to change > established behavior. But while tracking that down, I noticed that > the paging behavior is controlled by at least 5 things: > > the -p/--paginate/--no-pager options > the GIT_PAGER environment variable > the PAGER environment variable > the core.pager Git configuration variable > the build-in default (which seems to usually be "less")
One complication is the meaning of -p/--no-pager: With the remaining sources, we assume that there is a priority sequence, and that is used to determine what the pager is. There is a somewhat independent question of when the pager is activated. What I know so far is that some commands use the pager by default and some by default do not. My expectation is that --no-pager can be used to suppress the pager for *any* command. Is it also true that -p can force the pager for *any* command, or are there commands which will not page even with -p? I assume that if -p is specified but the "which pager" selection is "cat" (or some other specification of no pager), then there is no paging operation. Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
