From: 许铖 <thexuc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:26:42 GMT
Subject: [BUG] git help -a should no use page when in pipe
Message-ID: <CALmyJ=OaZAgr1i1DXMRQqCVWnKvO=QZH6AeGj8YfKMxAnRz6GA@mail.gmail.com>

To whom may concern,

Since git 2.20.0, invoking `git help -a` will cause git using page (e.g. less)
to display help message. However, such behaviour is not desirable when
`git help -a` is run inside a pipe or invoked by another program.

Step to reproduce the bug:
     git help -a | cat # this freezes the command line prompt.

This bug also causes issues in `hub` when invoking `git <alias>`.
More detail can be found at https://github.com/github/hub/issues/1963

I would suggest `git help -a` only invokes page when stdout is a tty.

Thanks for your attention.

Best Regards,
Cheng