git-config(1) documents the ability to enable or disable the pager (or set a command-specific pager) for any command by setting pager.<cmd>=true. For most commands, this seems to work as expected. However, setting pager.format-patch=true (or setting it to any specific pager) breaks badly: the pager spawns, with no output in it, and the pager doesn't respond to keystrokes (which makes it difficult to quit).
I think this may occur because format-patch's "reopen_stdout" interacts badly with the pager. I think it makes sense for "format-patch --stdout" to respect pager.format-patch, but for format-patch *without* stdout to ignore pager.* and *never* spawn a pager, given that its only output (the list of patch files) goes to "realstdout". - Josh Triplett -- 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
