From: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:43:41 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG. Git config pager when --edit
Message-ID: <CAH6sp9Ox+6p4RkjCZ0j3tXG9F4u7SPuwbSrOWmLSXic9DxSKiQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111107172652.0faade61@ashu.dyn.rarus.ru>

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Alexey Shumkin <Alex.Crezoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?