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Subject: Re: fatal output from git-show really wants a terminal
From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03 () volumehost ! net>
Date: 2008-12-11 22:45:05
Message-ID: 200812111645.10067.bss03 () volumehost ! net
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On Thursday 2008 December 11 15:55:55 Jeff King wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:51:15AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> Initially, I was looking for 'stdout' or 'stderr', and found many
>> unrelated commits. I then figured it was part of the PAGER support, and
>> began
>
>Try looking for isatty, which takes the numeric fd. I think the behavior
>you asked about would be this:
Thanks, this will be plenty of context for me to be able to crawl the archives
and the actual history thinking about better behavior and considering old
discussions.
>We are not talking about
>interactivity, but rather about where the output is going. So your test
>would consider this interactive:
>
> $ git log >foo.out
>
>and start a pager, which makes no sense.
Good point, I'll try and consider that while I investgate the history of the
issue.
>Now if you proposed checking stderr and stdin _in addition_ to stdout,
>that might make more sense, but I haven't thought too hard about any
>implications.
I did see a commit message mentioning some unusual settings for PAGER, but in
general, pagers are interactive. I'd think the default behavior would
be "interactive <-> pager", with a config option to turn the pager always off
or always on. From there, I would reason the test for interactivity should
be the POSIX test.
It looks like this test have have been attempting to follow the behavior
of --color=auto to GNU less and GNU grep (and possibly others). This
certainly makes some sense as well, and may be less surprising.
>And FWIW, I don't recall this ever being discussed before, but then I
>have not been involved with git since the very beginning.
Google should be able to find it. And worst-case, I can tell wget to spider
the archives and then run some sort of find/html2txt/grep on them.
I'll go back to "the stacks" and read the discussions and commits. If my
well-informed self still thinks the behavior should change, I'll write a
patch and open up the discussion again.
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