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Re: Force usage of pager for diff, show, etc when piping to non-TTY

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Date
Aug 17, 2023, 20:03 UTC
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Thank you for clarifying, Jeff. And thank you to all the git contributors who not only maintain git for all the developers everywhere, but also provide first class support :)

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 12:47 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 10:06:58AM -0700, Patrick wrote:
>
> > Just to be really clear, the filter in `interactive.diffFilter` is
> > meant as a filter for transforming (think a photo filter), as opposed
> > to a filter that removes elements, correct? I think that's what I got
> > tripped up on when you explained the first two times.
>
> Yes, exactly. In retrospect, the name is a little ambiguous. :)
> Glad you've figured it out.
>
> -Peff
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