Re: Cygwin + git log = no pager!

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:34:34PM -0600, Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>> So I set GIT_PAGER to 'echo custom pager' as you instructed, and I
>> noticed that wasn't being printed when I ran my git log alias. So what
>> I did after that was set GIT_TRACE=1 and here is the output I see
>> before my logs start printing:
>> [...]
>> Does using an alias have something to do with this?
>
> The aliases shouldn't matter (and I constructed a scenario like the one
> you showed and it starts the pager for me on Linux). It's more like git
> is deciding not to show a pager at all (e.g., it thinks your stdout is
> not a tty). Does running:
>
>   git log
>
> not use a pager, but:
>
>   git -p log
>
> does? In that case, I think that your stdout is not a tty for some
> reason.
>
> If that is the case, try:
>
>   git -p lg
>
> That _should_ turn on the pager, but I think it does not due to a bug
> with setup_pager and aliases. Something like the patch below would make
> it work (but if you are having to use "-p" manually, there is something
> to fix in your cygwin environment, which does not think you are on a
> terminal).
>
> -Peff
>
> <snip>