X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pager.c;h=8bac9d990381f5664333a92f68b0b8cd97d43855;hb=55ced83d8aca98277c6a495932c57e6c3c45930b;hp=4587fbbdb51e50c1e3e6e4c3476cdccd4ac59cee;hpb=e0d68cd5d95fc15342db38c211f71efe5bcfbe94;p=git.git

diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index 4587fbbdb..8bac9d990 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 
+#include <sys/select.h>
+
 /*
  * This is split up from the rest of git so that we might do
  * something different on Windows, for example.
@@ -7,6 +9,16 @@
 
 static void run_pager(const char *pager)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Work around bug in "less" by not starting it until we
+	 * have real input
+	 */
+	fd_set in;
+
+	FD_ZERO(&in);
+	FD_SET(0, &in);
+	select(1, &in, NULL, &in, NULL);
+
 	execlp(pager, pager, NULL);
 	execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", pager, NULL);
 }
@@ -19,6 +31,11 @@ void setup_pager(void)
 
 	if (!isatty(1))
 		return;
+	if (!pager) {
+		if (!pager_program)
+			git_config(git_default_config);
+		pager = pager_program;
+	}
 	if (!pager)
 		pager = getenv("PAGER");
 	if (!pager)