From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should "git help" respect the 'pager' setting?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 18:14:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130530171431.GF17475@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0ns3iVATnPwZ4OFJUxefyE6j-ayV3-iwh3Wr9FBZJyt1g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:38:59PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > I find it a bit weird that Git sets the configuration for external
> > commands, but it may make sense. No strong opinion here.
>
> I don't mean a setenv() kind of thing: how would we unset it after
> that? Perhaps something like execvpe(), passing in the environment as
> an argument?
Overriding PAGER might make sense, but I'd be quite annoyed if Git
decided to override MANPAGER without providing some way to override it.
If a user sets MANPAGER then it's because they want a specific pager
when reading man pages - invoking man through "git help" shouldn't cause
it to behave differently in this case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-30 16:33 Should "git help" respect the 'pager' setting? Michael Campbell
2013-05-30 16:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-30 16:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 17:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-30 17:08 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 17:14 ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-06-02 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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