From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 14:33:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/git-jump: cat output when not a terminal
Message-ID: <xmqq1rnqtubn.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CFBC77A-6518-4BEE-A210-6A7C818B9738@gmail.com>

Benjamin <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio writes:
>
>> I somehow doubt that users of vim types "!git jump diff" (or
>> whichever submode they want) from within vim's command prompt;
>> wouldn't they typically wrap the invocation in a vim macro?
>
> Vim-user here. I run "git jump (options)" from a shell quite a bit, but when I'm
> in vim I tend to use ":Ggrep" and similar commands from the fugitive plugin [1].
> I don't *think* I'm alone in this.

I can believe there are tons of users of the plugin.  My point still
stands---such a plugin can export GIT_EDITOR=cat when running "git
jump" and there is no need to change "git jump".