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Re: Proposal about --help options and man calls

From
Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2007, 10:42 UTC
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David Kastrup wrote:
> So I set GIT_PAGER to cat and hoped that it would get git to behave.

FYI, you can also set GIT_PAGER to an empty value to completely disable paging. However, "cat" does the same thing -- it is special cased in pager.c to do the same thing as an empty value.

Hmm, I guess that could stand to be documented. Patch forthcoming.
-Steve
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