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[PATCH 5/7] am: Fix launching of pager

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 19, 2010, 07:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20100219071203.GE29916@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To
<20100219065010.GA22258@progeny.tock>
The pagination functionality in git am has some problems:
 - It does not check if stdout is a tty, so it always paginates.
 - If $GIT_PAGER uses any environment variables, they are being
   ignored, since it does not run $GIT_PAGER through eval.
 - If $GIT_PAGER is set to the empty string, instead of passing
   output through to stdout, it tries to run $dotest/patch.

Fix them. While at it, move the definition of git_pager() to git-sh-setup so authors of other commands are not tempted to reimplement it with the same mistakes.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
Same as before, included for reference.
 git-am.sh       |    5 +----
 git-sh-setup.sh |   13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 3c08d53..b11af03 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -663,10 +663,7 @@ do
 		[eE]*) git_editor "$dotest/final-commit"
 		       action=again ;;
 		[vV]*) action=again
-		       : ${GIT_PAGER=$(git var GIT_PAGER)}
-		       : ${LESS=-FRSX}
-		       export LESS
-		       $GIT_PAGER "$dotest/patch" ;;
+		       git_pager "$dotest/patch" ;;
 		*)     action=again ;;
 		esac
 	    done
diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index d56426d..44fb467 100755
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -107,6 +107,19 @@ git_editor() {
 	eval "$GIT_EDITOR" '"$@"'
 }
 
+git_pager() {
+	if test -t 1
+	then
+		GIT_PAGER=$(git var GIT_PAGER)
+	else
+		GIT_PAGER=cat
+	fi
+	: ${LESS=-FRSX}
+	export LESS
+
+	eval "$GIT_PAGER" '"$@"'
+}
+
 sane_grep () {
 	GREP_OPTIONS= LC_ALL=C grep "$@"
 }
-- 
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Message 6 of 26 in “Re: 'git svn log' no longer uses the pager”
  1. 0/7 Re: 'git svn log' no longer uses the pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  2. 1/7 Fix 'git var' usage synopsisJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  3. 2/7 Make 'git var GIT_PAGER' always print the configured pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  4. 3/7 git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate optionJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  5. 4/7 git svn: Fix launching of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  6. 5/7 am: Fix launching of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  7. 6/7 tests: Add tests for automatic use of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2010
  9. 6/7 tests: Add tests for automatic use of pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 21, 2010
  10. 7/7 t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new oneJonathan Nieder, Feb 21, 2010
  11. Jeff KingFeb 21, 2010
  12. Johannes SixtFeb 22, 2010
  13. 8/7 tests: Fix race condition in t7006-pagerJonathan Nieder, Feb 22, 2010
  14. Jonathan NiederFeb 22, 2010
  15. 7/7 t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new oneJonathan Nieder, Feb 19, 2010
  16. Jeff KingFeb 19, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederFeb 19, 2010
  18. Jeff KingFeb 19, 2010
  19. Brandon CaseyFeb 19, 2010
  20. Brandon CaseyFeb 20, 2010
  21. Jonathan NiederFeb 20, 2010
  22. Brandon CaseyFeb 20, 2010
  23. 7/7 t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new oneJonathan Nieder, Feb 20, 2010
  24. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2010
  25. 7/7 t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new oneJonathan Nieder, Feb 20, 2010
  26. Simplify test-terminal.perlJonathan Nieder, Feb 20, 2010

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