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Provide a build time default-pager setting

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Provide a DEFAULT_PAGER knob so packagers can set the fallback
pager to something appropriate during the build.

Examples:

On (old) solaris systems, /usr/bin/less (typically the first less
found) doesn't understand the default arguments (FXRS), which
forces users to alter their environment (PATH, GIT_PAGER, LESS,
etc) or have a local or global gitconfig before paging works as
expected.

On Debian systems, by policy packages must fall back to the
'pager' command, so that changing the target of the
/usr/bin/pager symlink changes the default pager for all packages
at once.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2009-10-30 20:45:34 -05:00
parent 8f4b576ad1
commit a3d023d0a3
2 changed files with 16 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
#include "run-command.h"
#include "sigchain.h"
#ifndef DEFAULT_PAGER
#define DEFAULT_PAGER "less"
#endif
/*
* This is split up from the rest of git so that we can do
* something different on Windows.
@ -60,7 +64,7 @@ const char *git_pager(void)
if (!pager)
pager = getenv("PAGER");
if (!pager)
pager = "less";
pager = DEFAULT_PAGER;
else if (!*pager || !strcmp(pager, "cat"))
pager = NULL;