Re: Cygwin + git log = no pager!

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 08:55:41PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote:

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Thanks for the response. I did set this environment variable in my
.bashrc like so:

export GIT_PAGER=less

However after I do a 'git log' it is just spitting it out all at once
and not entering the pager.

Um OK that was the obvious thing to try. There is also the config
variable core.pager but GIT_PAGER should take precedence.

Presumably we are actually running what's in GIT_PAGER, but we can
double-check with:

  GIT_PAGER='echo custom pager' git log

You can also try:

  GIT_TRACE=1 git log

which should describe the pager being run.

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Could something be setting the environment variable LESS? Reading the
git-config man page for core.pager git wants to set LESS to FRSX but if
it is already set git takes that as an indication that you don't want to
set LESS automatically.

We can also double-check the LESS setting in the executed pager:

  GIT_PAGER='echo LESS=$LESS' git log

If we are running less, and it is using FRSX, I'd suspect some kind of
terminal weirdness with less itself. With "-F", less will quit if the
whole output can be displayed; it's possible it thinks the screen is
bigger than it is.

Trying:

  GIT_PAGER=less LESS=RSX git log

might help.

-Peff

So I set GIT_PAGER to 'echo custom pager' as you instructed, and I
noticed that wasn't being printed when I ran my git log alias. So what
I did after that was set GIT_TRACE=1 and here is the output I see
before my logs start printing:

$ git lg
trace: exec: 'git-lg'
trace: run_command: 'git-lg'
trace: run_command: 'git lg1'
trace: exec: 'git-lg1'
trace: run_command: 'git-lg1'
trace: run_command: 'git short-log-base --branches --remotes --tags'
trace: exec: 'git-short-log-base' '--branches' '--remotes' '--tags'
trace: run_command: 'git-short-log-base' '--branches' '--remotes' '--tags'
trace: alias expansion: short-log-base => 'log' '--graph'
'--abbrev-commit' '--decorate' '--date=relative'
'--format=format:%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset)%x09%C(bold
green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset) %C(dim
white)%an%C(reset) - %C(white)%s%C(reset)'
trace: built-in: git 'log' '--graph' '--abbrev-commit' '--decorate'
'--date=relative' '--format=format:%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset)%x09%C(bold
green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset) %C(dim
white)%an%C(reset) - %C(white)%s%C(reset)' '--branches' '--remotes'
'--tags'

Does using an alias have something to do with this?