This allows you to say:
git --less diff v2.6.16-rc5..
to pipe the output of any git command to your pager.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx>
---
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
>>
>> And I forgot to mention that it also adds the interactivity test
>> requested by Janek - aliases are now interpreted only when stdout is a
>> tty.
>
> I don't think that's a good test.
>
> The fact is, I do
>
> git diff | less -S
>
> all the time,...
This is not a serious patch, since I suspect it would obviously
not make much sense to say "git --less commit" or somesuch,
but it was fun to do.
git.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index bc463c9..c52da8c 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <limits.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include "exec_cmd.h"
+#include "cache.h"
#include "builtin.h"
@@ -162,6 +163,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv, ch
puts(git_exec_path());
exit(0);
}
+ if (!strcmp(cmd, "less")) {
+ setup_pager();
+ continue;
+ }
cmd_usage(0, NULL, NULL);
}
argv[0] = cmd;
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