Subject: [PATCH 3/6] git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate option

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:02:35 -0600

The --paginate option is meant to negate the effect of an explicit or
implicit pager.<cmd> = false setting.  Thus it turns the pager on if
output is going to a terminal rather than unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
---
Noticed while testing.  (It might be nice to have an --always-paginate
facility to allow debugging by writing output from a pager into
something that is not a terminal.)

 Documentation/git.txt |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 01c4631..f26641a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@ help ...`.
 
 -p::
 --paginate::
-	Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER).
+	Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER) if standard
+	output is a terminal.  This overrides the `pager.<cmd>`
+	configuration options (see the "Configuration Mechanism" section
+	below).
 
 --no-pager::
 	Do not pipe git output into a pager.
@@ -401,7 +404,8 @@ people.  Here is an example:
 ------------
 
 Various commands read from the configuration file and adjust
-their operation accordingly.
+their operation accordingly.  See linkgit:git-config[1] for a
+list.

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1.7.0