Re: "git branch" issue in 2.16.1

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2018, 19:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20180206195754.GE1427@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
In-Reply-To: <2412A603-4382-4AF5-97D0-D16D5FAAFE28@eluvio.com>

Hi Jason,

Jason Racey wrote:

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> After upgrading git from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 (via Homebrew -
> I’m on macOS) I noticed that the “git branch” command
> appears to display the branch listing in something similar
> to a vi editor - though not quite the same. I don’t know
> the technical term for this state. You can’t actually edit
> the output of the command, but you’re in a state where you
> have to type “q” to exit and then the list disappears.
> It’s very inconvenient and it doesn’t seem like it was by
> design. I’m using zsh in iTerm2 if that helps. Thanks.

In 2.16.0 `git branch --list` is sent to a pager by default. (Without arguments, --list is the default, so this applies to `git branch`).

You can set pager.branch to false to disable this in the config, or use git --no-pager branch to do so for a single invocation.

I can't say why you're seeing this with 2.16.1 and not 2.16.0, but I'm not familiar with homebrew, so perhaps something didn't work as intended in 2.16.0.

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Todd
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