From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:25:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git-log produces no output
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);
 }