Re: [PATCH 2/3] Allow isatty to be overriden with GIT_FORCE_TTY

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> Avishay Matayev <me@avishay.dev> writes:
>
> > There are several behaviors where git will not attempt to do an action if a
> > tty is not present, for example - `git_pager` (pager.c) will instruct git
> > to not use the GIT_PAGER environment variable if stdout is not a pty.
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> In general, I am negative on this approach, even though I agree that
> the issue you are trying to solve is worth solving.  "Force pretend
> that we are talking to a TTY" exposes too much of the internal
> logic in the implementation to the end users.
>
> Often we use isatty() as an approximation for "are we being
> interactive?", and I wouldn't have as much problem as I have with
> the "FORCE_TTY" to an approach to give users a knob to tell us "do
> not use your logic to guess---I am telling you that we are
> interactive, so behave as such".