From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:56:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)
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:
> 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;