Subject: Re: git status in clean working dir

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:34:45 +0200

Jeff King schrieb:
> @@ -231,6 +232,8 @@ static int run_command(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
>  		use_pager = check_pager_config(p->cmd);
>  	if (use_pager == -1 && p->option & USE_PAGER)
>  		use_pager = 1;
> +	if (use_pager ==  1 && p->option & FORBID_PAGER)
> +		use_pager = 0;
>  	commit_pager_choice();
>  
>  	if (p->option & NEED_WORK_TREE)
> @@ -286,7 +289,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
>  		{ "count-objects", cmd_count_objects, RUN_SETUP },
>  		{ "describe", cmd_describe, RUN_SETUP },
>  		{ "diff", cmd_diff },
> -		{ "diff-files", cmd_diff_files, RUN_SETUP },
> +		{ "diff-files", cmd_diff_files, RUN_SETUP | FORBID_PAGER },

Every now and then I want to use 'git -p diff-files', and I think that is
a valid use-case. But your suggested patch seems to forbid the pager even
in this case. :-(

-- Hannes