Hi Gabriel, On Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 at 5:25 AM, Gabriel Wicki <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've noticed that it comes with additional challenges to run the
> committer script inside of a container. Does anybody here know how to
> do that?
>
> I realized I need `less` inside the env for `git diff` to work its
> charms, but apparently TERM is set to `dumb` which makes `git diff`
> output an empty string which in turn lets the committer scripts think
> that there is nothing to be done.
This seems odd that an empty string was output because of the TERM setting. I
just tried it using a random commit for the diff, and got a warning with a
prompt to press return to continue followed by the diff once I did hit return:
$ TERM=dumb git diff eb54cdee2fc^..eb54cdee2fc
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
Press RETURN to continue
diff --git a/gnu/packages/containers.scm b/gnu/packages/containers.scm
index 4e4b8117e8c..beccaca44de 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/containers.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/containers.scm
@@ -1648,7 +1648,7 @@ (define-public catatonit
(define-public podman
(package
(name "podman")
- (version "6.0.2")
+ (version "6.1.0")
(outputs '("out" "docker"))
(properties
`((output-synopsis "docker" "docker alias for podman")))
@@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ (define-public podman
(url "https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman";)
(commit (string-append "v" version))))
(sha256
- (base32 "0didfzk85zs7jmih6p7ak9xrdlvxm817zsgrc7wr2amq9aiifmc4"))
+ (base32 "1vwm2s3ylsdmp550s45wzfmgnc1ckwap8f5nw7rypv0qqkr82fn2"))
(file-name (git-file-name name version))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
>
> Ideas/hints/pointers? All help as always much appreciated!
I think either redirecting the standard output of "git diff" or setting PAGER
to something else may do the trick. When I piped my above command to "cat"
(i.e. running "TERM=dumb git diff eb54cdee2fc^..eb54cdee2fc | cat"), I got the
diff without the accompanying warning or need to hit return. AFAIK, "git diff"
won't try to use a pager like less if its output is to a pipe. Likewise you
could get around not having less by setting PAGER to something else; I just
tried it using cat as the pager, and got a longer diff to dump to the terminal.
The warning and prompt to continue I saw were coming from less when TERM=dumb,
because also setting PAGER=cat made the warning go away without redirecting the
standard output. HTH!
Cheers,
Kaelyn
>
> Best wishes
> gabriel / gabber
>
>
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