Avishay Matayev <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > There are several behaviors where git will not attempt to do an action if a > tty is not present, for example - `git_pager` (pager.c) will instruct git > to not use the GIT_PAGER environment variable if stdout is not a pty. In general, I am negative on this approach, even though I agree that the issue you are trying to solve is worth solving. "Force pretend that we are talking to a TTY" exposes too much of the internal logic in the implementation to the end users. Often we use isatty() as an approximation for "are we being interactive?", and I wouldn't have as much problem as I have with the "FORCE_TTY" to an approach to give users a knob to tell us "do not use your logic to guess---I am telling you that we are interactive, so behave as such".
