Re: git log missing last line of output

From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Jun 1, 2009, 20:56 UTC
Message-ID: <DD9E6A72-B168-424E-8406-483B1F315088@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <h01enr$71i$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

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> Git has the option '--no-pager' to overcome incompatibility issues.   
> Since I
> do not know if the pager is having problems with any commands  
> besides 'git
> log', I will focus on 'git log' only.  The command 'git --no-pager  
> log' can
> be executed in lieu of 'git log' to display the log correctly.  A  
> git alias
> can be setup to create a shorter command to accomplish this.  I've  
> created
> the command 'git logr' as a system alias on the git testbox so you  
> can use
> that command instead of 'git log'.  A system alias applies to all  
> logins and
> repos on the system.

You could also use the core.pager and/or pager.<cmd> configuration variables. Setting either to "false" or "no" (or "off" in git >= 1.6.3-rc1) will stop git from using the pager without needing an alias. See git-config(1) (or Documentation/config.txt) for details.

~~ Brian