[+cc Duy, whose patch this is] On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:10:49PM -0400, Jörn Engel wrote: > A second option is to add a --pager (or rather --no-pager) option to > the command line and allow the user to specify > GIT_PAGER="git --no-pager -p column --mode='dense color'" git -p branch I think we have "--no-pager" already. But the "-p" is turning _on_ the pager, so you could also just omit it. IOW, I really don't understand why the original command was not simply: GIT_PAGER="git column --mode='dense color'" git -p branch The whole infinite loop that the original commit solved is caused by specifying the "-p". So it sounds like the right solution is "don't do that". Am I missing something useful that the "-p" does? I wonder if perhaps the intent was that the user might have set "pager.column", in which case the use of the pager is implied. I still think that the right solution is to use "--no-pager" explicitly then. If the user is invoking git inside GIT_PAGER, it is up to them to save themselves from infinite recursion. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html