On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Wilhelm Schuermann wrote: > When grep is called with the --quiet option, the pager is initialized > despite not being used. When the pager is "less", anything output by > previous commands and not ended with a newline is overwritten. > [...] > This patch prevents calling the pager in the first place, saving an > unnecessary fork() call. Thanks, I think this makes sense. We do a similar thing for "git diff --quiet". If you do not set "-F" in your $LESS variable, it is even more annoying. E.g., with: if git grep -q foo; then : do something fi which will pause, waiting for the user to hit 'q'. > diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c > index e77f7cf..fe7b9fd 100644 > --- a/builtin/grep.c > +++ b/builtin/grep.c > @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > } > } > > - if (!show_in_pager) > + if (!show_in_pager && !opt.status_only) > setup_pager(); Patch looks obviously correct. -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