From: Dan Zwell <dzwell@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:00:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff not showing changes (corrupt repo?)
Message-ID: <470313D0.7020808@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071003032331.GA11638@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
 > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:17:41PM -0500, Dan Zwell wrote:
 >
 >> e88ee2915493213ea0d0be64c542c090fefd4b33 is first bad commit
 >> commit e88ee2915493213ea0d0be64c542c090fefd4b33
 >> Author: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
 >> Date:   Tue Oct 10 21:16:25 2006 +0200
 >>
 >>     paginate git-diff by default
 >
 > The only thing this patch does is run the pager, so presumably git-diff
 > _is_ generating output, but calling the pager is broken for some reason.
 > What is the value of $GIT_PAGER and $PAGER on the broken and working
 > machines? Can you confirm that the pager works on both machines?
 >

You're absolutely right, my pager was being called and exiting. My 
system configuration must be dodgy, because "echo hi | less 
--quit-if-one-screen" does not display anything unless it in run in 
"screen". But that's not git's fault, and I just need different options, 
for now. Thanks a lot for helping me solve this.

Dan

 >
 > -Peff
 >