Subject: Re: git rev-list --pretty=format:"" issue

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:36 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Forrest Galloway <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> git 1.8.2.1 on OSX(Mountain Lion) installed with Homebrew
>>
>> I am seeing an issue when trying to format the output from rev-list command.
>> git log --pretty=format:"%H - %an, %ar : %s" When I attempt the above
>> string, instead of printing to the shell, LESS is opened and the
>> output is displayed there.
[...]
>
> Actually, less is running in both cases.
[...]
> If you do not want pager, run it with no-pager, like this:
>
> 	git --no-pager log ...your other parameters...

Also note that the pager is automatically disabled if you redirect
stdout, so --no-pager is only required in some fringe cases, notably
when attempting to run git under GDB.

-- 
Thomas Rast
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