Re: [PATCH v2] bisect: disable pager while invoking show-branch
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-27 18:29:09
"Oded S via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref] writes:
From: Oded Shimon <redacted> git-bisect uses show-branch for logging during the bisect process. If the user sets an interactive pager for show-branch, this makes bisect hang (wait for user input) unexpectedly - so we disable pager with -P. It's possible that the user would set a pager for git-checkout as well, but an interactive pager there would break many more scripts. Signed-off-by: Oded Shimon <redacted> ---
Nicely described. Now we can discuss if the thought process behind this change makes sense or not with such a clear description. I do not know if "unexpectedly" is truly unexpected for those who configure show-branch to page, though. After all they wanted their pager to kick in. In any case, such users are probably better off configuring their pager not to prompt and wait when the output is less than pageful (e.g. "less" has "--quit-if-one-screen" option and 'F' in $LESS environemnt variable triggers this behaviour). The patch looks good to me. Thanks.
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diff --git a/bisect.c b/bisect.c index af2863d044b..c02bcc3359f 100644 --- a/bisect.c +++ b/bisect.c@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static struct oid_array skipped_revs; static struct object_id *current_bad_oid; static const char *argv_checkout[] = {"checkout", "-q", NULL, "--", NULL}; -static const char *argv_show_branch[] = {"show-branch", NULL, NULL}; +static const char *argv_show_branch[] = {"-P", "show-branch", NULL, NULL}; static const char *term_bad; static const char *term_good;@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ static enum bisect_error bisect_checkout(const struct object_id *bisect_rev, int return -abs(res); } - argv_show_branch[1] = bisect_rev_hex; + argv_show_branch[2] = bisect_rev_hex; res = run_command_v_opt(argv_show_branch, RUN_GIT_CMD); /* * Errors in `run_command()` itself, signaled by res < 0,base-commit: eb27b338a3e71c7c4079fbac8aeae3f8fbb5c687