Re: [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 22, 2021, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzgpvexgq.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YZvjhF+KM/gzu7vN@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Just grepping around on GitHub, I don't see many uses, but this one[1] for
> example might get confused:
>
>   export GIT_PAGER=cat # disable pager when running interactively

Yeah, that is an excellent example that argues against changing this.

> So I dunno. It is probably unlikely to have much fallout. On the other
> hand, I kind of wonder if the benefit is worth changing now.

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