On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Bob Portmann wrote:
>
> Yes, this is the problem. It works when I send it to a file. It seems
> to be that having any extra options my PAGER command that messes it up
> (see below). If get-log was a shell script I would imagine that some
> quotes are missing:-)
It's the other way around: it's got "too much" quoting.
"git log" will literally _execute_ the PAGER environment, not pass it to a
shell, and not interpret any arguments.
So it will look for a program called "more -i" (space and all), and no
such program exists, so the execve fails, and git log ends up being
silent.
This patch would have made things a lot more obvious.
Junio?
Linus
---
diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index b063353..9204641 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -47,5 +47,6 @@ void setup_pager(void)
setenv("LESS", "-S", 0);
run_pager(pager);
+ die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager);
exit(255);
}
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