Re: [PATCH] Revert "Stop starting pager recursively"

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

[+cc Duy, whose patch this is]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:10:49PM -0400, Jörn Engel wrote:

quoted

A second option is to add a --pager (or rather --no-pager) option to
the command line and allow the user to specify
    GIT_PAGER="git --no-pager -p column --mode='dense color'" git -p branch

I think we have "--no-pager" already. But the "-p" is turning _on_ the
pager, so you could also just omit it. IOW, I really don't understand
why the original command was not simply:

  GIT_PAGER="git column --mode='dense color'" git -p branch

The whole infinite loop that the original commit solved is caused by
specifying the "-p". So it sounds like the right solution is "don't do
that". Am I missing something useful that the "-p" does?

My reading of this is that Duy wanted to let "-p" kick in to pass
the columnized output, which could be more than a page long, thru
the usual "less" or whatever pager.