Hi,
The man page for git documents the -p option to _enable_ the paginated
output for git, which isn't very usefull since the commands that might
actually need paging have it enabled by default.
What I can't find is a clean way to _disable_ the pager. A hacky way
is to run "git whatever | cat", or "GIT_PAGER=cat git whatever". From
the code, it seems that git doesn't even launch the pager if it's set
to "cat".
I think that deserves an less-hacky, and documented way. I'd suggest a
--no-pager, or --dont-paginate, that would do the opposite of -p as a
global option for git.
Below is a patch that does this:
>From 2148c2564ca6480feaec9a9d091259032257918d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:24:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add and document a global --no-pager option for git.
To keep the change small, this is done by setting GIT_PAGER to "cat". I'd
prefer not using global/environment variables for that, but it would
require a complete refactoring of options handling in git.
---
Documentation/git.txt | 6 +++++-
git.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 8017997..707a756 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git - the stupid content tracker
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate]
+'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]]
+ [-p|--paginate] [--no-pager]
[--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE]
[--help] COMMAND [ARGS]
@@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ OPTIONS
-p|--paginate::
Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER).
+--no-pager::
+ Do not pipe git output into a pager.
+
--git-dir=<path>::
Set the path to the repository. This can also be controlled by
setting the GIT_DIR environment variable.
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index cab0e72..f280e7d 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#include "quote.h"
const char git_usage_string[] =
- "git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
+ "git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate] [--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND
[ARGS]";
static void prepend_to_path(const char *dir, int len)
{
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc, int* envchanged)
}
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "-p") || !strcmp(cmd, "--paginate")) {
setup_pager();
+ } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--no-pager")) {
+ setenv("GIT_PAGER", "cat", 1);
+ if (envchanged)
+ *envchanged = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--git-dir")) {
if (*argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "No directory given for --git-dir.\n" );
--
1.5.3.rc0.64.gf4f4a-dirty
--
Matthieu
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