Re: BUG. Git config pager when --edit

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 7, 2011, 16:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20111107164250.GC27055@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAH6sp9Ox+6p4RkjCZ0j3tXG9F4u7SPuwbSrOWmLSXic9DxSKiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 02:43:41PM +0100, Frans Klaver wrote:

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> > As far as my config is large enough to be paged I set pager.config=less
> > setting. But since that moment when I run
> > $ git config --edit
> > I get
> > Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
> > And some messed config output
> >
> > The same happens if to run
> > $ vim .git/config | less
> 
> So git is trying to tell vim to pipe its output to less. vim can't do
> that because it needs a terminal, as it's the only way vim is usable.
> 
> Should pager.config then only be used with --list?

Yes, but it can't, because it is not the config command, but the git wrapper that respects "pager.config". We have similar issues with setting "pager.tag" (you want it for listing, but not for tag creation) and others.

I should probably polish and submit the patch here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182238/focus=182475

-Peff