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[PATCH 2/6] Make 'git var GIT_PAGER' always print the configured pager

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 14, 2010, 11:59 UTC
Message-ID
<20100214115959.GB3499@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To
<20100214115430.GA1849@progeny.tock>

Scripted commands that want to use git’s configured pager know better than ‘git var’ does whether stdout is going to be a tty at the appropriate time. Checking isatty(1) as git_pager() does now won’t cut it, since the output of git var itself is almost never a terminal. The symptom is that when used by humans, ‘git var GIT_PAGER’ behaves as it should, but when used by scripts, it always returns ‘cat’!

So avoid tricks with isatty() and just always print the configured pager.

This does not fix the callers to check isatty(1) themselves yet. Nevertheless, this patch alone is enough to fix 'am --interactive'.

Thanks to Sebastian Celis for the report and Jeff King for the analysis.

Reported-by: Sebastian Celis <sebastian@sebastiancelis.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 builtin-var.c |    2 +-
 cache.h       |    2 +-
 pager.c       |    6 +++---
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-var.c b/builtin-var.c
index e6ee7bc..70fdb4d 100644
--- a/builtin-var.c
+++ b/builtin-var.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static const char *editor(int flag)
 
 static const char *pager(int flag)
 {
-	const char *pgm = git_pager();
+	const char *pgm = git_pager(1);
 
 	if (!pgm)
 		pgm = "cat";
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index d478eff..d454b7e 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ extern const char *git_committer_info(int);
 extern const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email, const char *date_str, int);
 extern const char *fmt_name(const char *name, const char *email);
 extern const char *git_editor(void);
-extern const char *git_pager(void);
+extern const char *git_pager(int stdout_is_tty);
 
 struct checkout {
 	const char *base_dir;
diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index 2c7e8ec..dac358f 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ static void wait_for_pager_signal(int signo)
 	raise(signo);
 }
 
-const char *git_pager(void)
+const char *git_pager(int stdout_is_tty)
 {
 	const char *pager;
 
-	if (!isatty(1))
+	if (!stdout_is_tty)
 		return NULL;
 
 	pager = getenv("GIT_PAGER");
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ const char *git_pager(void)
 
 void setup_pager(void)
 {
-	const char *pager = git_pager();
+	const char *pager = git_pager(isatty(1));
 
 	if (!pager)
 		return;
-- 
1.7.0
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Message 8 of 27 in “'git svn log' no longer uses the pager”
  1. Sebastian CelisFeb 13, 2010
  2. Jeff KingFeb 13, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederFeb 14, 2010
  4. 1/6 Fix 'git var' usage synopsisJonathan Nieder, Feb 14, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2010
  6. 1/6 Fix 'git var' usage synopsisJonathan Nieder, Feb 15, 2010
  7. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010
  8. 2/6 Make 'git var GIT_PAGER' always print the configured pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 14, 2010
  9. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederFeb 15, 2010
  11. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010
  12. 3/6 git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate optionJonathan Nieder, Feb 14, 2010
  13. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010
  14. 4/6 git svn: Fix launching of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 14, 2010
  15. Eric WongFeb 15, 2010
  16. 5/6 am: Fix launching of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 14, 2010
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2010
  18. 5/6 am: Fix launching of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 15, 2010
  19. 5/6 am: Fix launching of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 15, 2010
  20. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010
  21. 5/6 am: Fix launching of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 15, 2010
  22. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010
  23. Johannes SixtFeb 15, 2010
  24. 6/6 tests: Add tests for automatic use of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 14, 2010
  25. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010
  26. 6/6 tests: Add tests for automatic use of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 15, 2010
  27. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2010

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