From: Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@develooper.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:56:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git status in clean working dir
Message-ID: <D42305E3-82DA-46C1-B55F-74AD9AD48197@develooper.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzeir68z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


On Jul 21, 2008, at 19:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> (2) Then why are we even allowing to configure the plumbing to page?


I don't have an opinion on the the appropriateness of paging various  
commands, but to solve the problem of scripts getting tripped up by  
the paging, couldn't the plumping check if STDOUT is a tty and only do  
the paging if so?

(In Perl "page_output(...) if $pager_configured and -t STDOUT")


  - ask

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