From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:26:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!
Message-ID: <7vy6yei5ha.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <3c6c07c20812171818k6b6e3555ja991e20d74d8291b@mail.gmail.com>

"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@gmail.com> writes:

> To me, the most important nugget from the original complaint was that
> git-diff sends its error messages to stdout.  I understand why it
> might be done, but I'd worry about losing the stderr diagnostic for a
> command that matters.  [I've been playing around with this for a few
> minutes trying to see errors going to stdout and I can't reproduce
> it--I wonder if they really do.]

They indeed did but it has hopefully been fixed.  See a833502 (pager: do
not dup2 stderr if it is already redirected, 2008-12-15).

> ...  Like Junio, I also eschew doing terminal emulation
> inside of emacs.

Come to think of it, it may have been from you that I picked up the trick
of setting PAGER to cat inside an Emacs environment.

> Good evening from the icy midwest,

Good evening from rainy and chilly SoCal.