From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Provide a DEFAULT_PAGER knob so packagers can set the fallback
pager to something appropriate during the build.
Examples:
On (old) solaris systems, /usr/bin/less (typically the first less
found) doesn't understand the default arguments (FXRS), which
forces users to alter their environment (PATH, GIT_PAGER, LESS,
etc) or have a local or global gitconfig before paging works as
expected.
On Debian systems, by policy packages must fall back to the
'pager' command, so that changing the target of the
/usr/bin/pager symlink changes the default pager for all packages
at once.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 11 +++++++++++
pager.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 625866c..18fc50a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ all::
#
# Define NO_REGEX if you have no or inferior regex support in your C library.
#
+# Define DEFAULT_PAGER to a sensible pager command (defaults to "less") if
+# you want to use something different. The value will be interpreted by the
+# shell at runtime when it is used.
+#
# Define DEFAULT_EDITOR to a sensible editor command (defaults to "vi") if you
# want to use something different. The value will be interpreted by the shell
# if necessary when it is used. Examples:
@@ -1380,6 +1384,13 @@ DEFAULT_EDITOR_CQ_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(DEFAULT_EDITOR_CQ))
BASIC_CFLAGS += -DDEFAULT_EDITOR='$(DEFAULT_EDITOR_CQ_SQ)'
endif
+ifdef DEFAULT_PAGER
+DEFAULT_PAGER_CQ = "$(subst ",\",$(subst \,\\,$(DEFAULT_PAGER)))"
+DEFAULT_PAGER_CQ_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(DEFAULT_PAGER_CQ))
+
+BASIC_CFLAGS += -DDEFAULT_PAGER='$(DEFAULT_PAGER_CQ_SQ)'
+endif
+
ALL_CFLAGS += $(BASIC_CFLAGS)
ALL_LDFLAGS += $(BASIC_LDFLAGS)
diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index 0b63d99..92c03f6 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
#include "run-command.h"
#include "sigchain.h"
+#ifndef DEFAULT_PAGER
+#define DEFAULT_PAGER "less"
+#endif
+
/*
* This is split up from the rest of git so that we can do
* something different on Windows.
@@ -60,7 +64,7 @@ const char *git_pager(void)
if (!pager)
pager = getenv("PAGER");
if (!pager)
- pager = "less";
+ pager = DEFAULT_PAGER;
else if (!*pager || !strcmp(pager, "cat"))
pager = NULL;
--
1.6.5.2
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