From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:24:06 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal output from git-show really wants a terminal
Message-ID: <200812101624.11255.bss03@volumehost.net>
In-Reply-To: <200812102046.50186.j6t@kdbg.org>

On Wednesday 2008 December 10 13:46:50 you wrote:
>On Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008, Tim Olsen wrote:
>> It appears that when outputting a fatal error, git-show will choose
>> stdout over stderr if stdout is a terminal and stderr is not.
>
>This is by design.

Then it is poor design. :P j/k

Why not use the pager only if git-show is "interactive", using the same test 
for interactivity as SUSv3/POSIX shells use?  IIRC, a shell is interactive if 
both stdin and stderr are terminals.  That test for interactivity -- a 
associated difference in behavior -- predates git by a number of years.  Is 
there a reason for being different?  Is the porcelain consistent about that 
behavior?
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