Add and document a global --no-pager option for git.

To keep the change small, this is done by setting GIT_PAGER to "cat".

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 8017997fb9bd38a0c497bf233a8f0908b33f8329..3b0d530257c66a5562ced91cc506e49d4ff484d3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git - the stupid content tracker
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate]
+'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]]
+    [-p|--paginate|--no-pager]
     [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE]
     [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]
 
@@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ OPTIONS
 -p|--paginate::
        Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER).
 
+--no-pager::
+       Do not pipe git output into a pager.
+
 --git-dir=<path>::
        Set the path to the repository. This can also be controlled by
        setting the GIT_DIR environment variable.

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index cab0e7227dfbea3c07be81317418518e55499e18..c46691e9767bedf4af9cafcd4f48d858d220e8a5 100644 (file)
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #include "quote.h"
 
 const char git_usage_string[] =
-       "git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
+       "git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
 
 static void prepend_to_path(const char *dir, int len)
 {
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc, int* envchanged)
                        }
                } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "-p") || !strcmp(cmd, "--paginate")) {
                        setup_pager();
+               } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--no-pager")) {
+                       setenv("GIT_PAGER", "cat", 1);
+                       if (envchanged)
+                               *envchanged = 1;
                } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--git-dir")) {
                        if (*argc < 2) {
                                fprintf(stderr, "No directory given for --git-dir.\n" );