From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git -p status does not use colors
Message-ID: <20070216155658.GB7183@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070216151925.GA28974@moooo.ath.cx>

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:19:25PM +0100, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:

> git -p status starts the pager, then runs git-commit.sh (named
> git-status) which in turn runs git-runstatus.  I guess the problem is
> that git-runstatus cannot check that the pager was started and just
> knows that stdout is no terminal.  Has anyone an idea how to fix
> this?

Your analysis looks right to me.  I think you would need to set
GIT_PAGER_IN_USE in the environment whenever you turn on the pager in
the git wrapper, and then set git's internal pager_in_use variable based
on that.

-Peff