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Re: BUG. Git config pager when --edit

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Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 7, 2011, 13:43 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Alexey Shumkin <Alex.Crezoff@gmail.com> wrote:
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> As far as my config is large enough to be paged I set pager.config=less
> setting. But since that moment when I run
> $ git config --edit
> I get
> Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
> And some messed config output
>
> The same happens if to run
> $ vim .git/config | less

So git is trying to tell vim to pipe its output to less. vim can't do that because it needs a terminal, as it's the only way vim is usable.

Should pager.config then only be used with --list?
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  1. Alexey ShumkinNov 7, 2011
  2. Frans KlaverNov 7, 2011
  3. Jeff KingNov 7, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 7, 2011
  5. Jeff KingNov 7, 2011
  6. Frans KlaverNov 7, 2011
  7. how to merge sub directory or file?Emily, Nov 7, 2011
  8. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 7, 2011
  9. Emily RenNov 8, 2011

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