Should "git help" respect the 'pager' setting?

I have my global git config pager set to 'cat', but when I do a "git
help <command>", it still uses a pager.  This is especially irksome in
emacs shell buffers, where I am most of the time.  I know I can do a
M-x man -> git-<whatever>, but wondered if this was a bug or user
error.  ("git --no-pager help <command>" does the same.)


12:31 [mcampbell] /tmp  % git --no-pager help log
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
-  (press RETURN)