Re: [PATCH] Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2007, 13:56 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703150656v6fb91c9bge73f64d4dc05a115@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45F940E0.60302@fs.ei.tum.de>

On 3/15/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:

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> Alex Riesen wrote:
> > We have "PAGER=cat" in test-lib.sh which just disables pager,
> > so gits tests do not have the problem (maybe it was disabled just
> > because of this?). And if someone has own tests _with_ pager active
> > the one better be aware of what the one doing.
>
> Does PAGER=cat really disable the pager?  seems to me that it simply
> passes the data through cat.

Yes: pager.c:

	else if (!*pager || !strcmp(pager, "cat"))
		return;