From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:54:55 GMT
Subject: Re: git status in clean working dir
Message-ID: <20080724165455.GD20816@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <D42305E3-82DA-46C1-B55F-74AD9AD48197@develooper.com>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:56:48PM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

>> (2) Then why are we even allowing to configure the plumbing to page?
>
> I don't have an opinion on the the appropriateness of paging various  
> commands, but to solve the problem of scripts getting tripped up by the 
> paging, couldn't the plumping check if STDOUT is a tty and only do the 
> paging if so?
>
> (In Perl "page_output(...) if $pager_configured and -t STDOUT")

We already do this, so "git status >/dev/null" produces the correct exit
code. But scripts don't necessarily redirect stdout.

-Peff