On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > This marks diff-files as FORBID_PAGER; I will leave it to others to > > fight about which commands should have it. But it doesn't make sense to > > mark "status" since some people obviously _want_ the paging there. > > Why not "simply" forbid the pager when output is not a terminal ? We already do that (see pager.c:53). The original poster still had a problem, but I don't know if it was for actual usage or simply a toy $ git status $ echo $? $ echo "why don't exit codes work in status?" | mail git@vger question. -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