Re: git-log produces no output

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 21, 2006, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604211223561.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604211214560.3701@g5.osdl.org>

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> This patch would have made things a lot more obvious.

Actually, scratch that one, and use this one instead. Much better, and actually allows Bob's crazy PAGER environment variable to work, rather than just reporting an error about it.

		Linus
---

diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index b063353..9a30939 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ #include "cache.h"
 static void run_pager(const char *pager)
 {
 	execlp(pager, pager, NULL);
+	execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", pager, NULL);
 }
 
 void setup_pager(void)
@@ -47,5 +48,6 @@ void setup_pager(void)
 
 	setenv("LESS", "-S", 0);
 	run_pager(pager);
+	die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager);
 	exit(255);
 }