Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!

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"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> To me, the most important nugget from the original complaint was that
> git-diff sends its error messages to stdout.  I understand why it
> might be done, but I'd worry about losing the stderr diagnostic for a
> command that matters.  [I've been playing around with this for a few
> minutes trying to see errors going to stdout and I can't reproduce
> it--I wonder if they really do.]

They indeed did but it has hopefully been fixed.  See a833502 (pager: do
not dup2 stderr if it is already redirected, 2008-12-15).

> ...  Like Junio, I also eschew doing terminal emulation
> inside of emacs.

Come to think of it, it may have been from you that I picked up the trick
of setting PAGER to cat inside an Emacs environment.

> Good evening from the icy midwest,

Good evening from rainy and chilly SoCal.
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