From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:50:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add core.pager config variable.
Message-ID: <5CF58212-5486-4BA6-AC78-50F62D1B7F6E@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <200707032142.07154.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>


On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> Nak.
>
> PAGER cannot override core.pager with this.

core.pager is acting exactly like GIT_PAGER.  The priority goes (from  
pager.c:30):

GIT_PAGER
core.pager
PAGER
"less"

I think this is a desirable option because I'd like to tell all other  
programs to use less and tell git to use tig (which I'm trying out).   
I specifically want core.pager to override PAGER, but this leaves  
GIT_PAGER as the final override.  Why should I export an environment  
variable to every program when git has a configuration file?  And  
what does overriding PAGER break?  If the user doesn't want to use  
core.pager, they don't have to.

~~ Brian