Document how to tell git to not launch a pager

Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 3fbfd45ffedfafc7b4de718e9455e7555aabdbb8..4c4d1746e03bdf47959ba58335785974d20efdee 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -417,7 +417,9 @@ other
        See gitlink:git-merge[1]
 
 'GIT_PAGER'::
-       This environment variable overrides `$PAGER`.
+       This environment variable overrides `$PAGER`. If it is set
+       to an empty string or to the value "cat", git will not launch
+       a pager.
 
 'GIT_FLUSH'::
        If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such