config: respect `pager.config` in list/get-mode only

Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only,
2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect
`pager.config` when we are listing or "get"ing config.

We have several getters and some are guaranteed to give at most one line
of output. Paging all getters including those could be convenient from a
documentation point-of-view. The downside would be that a misconfigured
or not so modern pager might wait for user interaction before
terminating. Let's instead respect the config for precisely those
getters which may produce more than one line of output.

`--get-urlmatch` may or may not produce multiple lines of output,
depending on the exact usage. Let's not try to recognize the two modes,
but instead make `--get-urlmatch` always respect the config. Analyzing
the detailed usage might be trivial enough here, but could establish a
precedent that we will never be able to enforce throughout the codebase
and that will just open a can of worms.

This fixes the failing test added in the previous commit. Also adapt the
test for whether `git config foo.bar bar` and `git config --get foo.bar`
respects `pager.config`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

4 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 14da5fc157..249090ac84 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
 	using `--file`, `--global`, etc) and `on` when searching all
 	config files.
 
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+`pager.config` is only respected when listing configuration, i.e., when
+using `--list` or any of the `--get-*` which may return multiple results.
+
 [[FILES]]
 FILES
 -----
diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index ab5f95476e..a732d9b56c 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ static int show_origin;
 #define ACTION_GET_COLORBOOL (1<<14)
 #define ACTION_GET_URLMATCH (1<<15)
 
+/*
+ * The actions "ACTION_LIST | ACTION_GET_*" which may produce more than
+ * one line of output and which should therefore be paged.
+ */
+#define PAGING_ACTIONS (ACTION_LIST | ACTION_GET_ALL | \
+			ACTION_GET_REGEXP | ACTION_GET_URLMATCH)
+
 #define TYPE_BOOL (1<<0)
 #define TYPE_INT (1<<1)
 #define TYPE_BOOL_OR_INT (1<<2)
@@ -594,6 +601,9 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		usage_with_options(builtin_config_usage, builtin_config_options);
 	}
 
+	if (actions & PAGING_ACTIONS)
+		setup_auto_pager("config", 0);
+
 	if (actions == ACTION_LIST) {
 		check_argc(argc, 0, 0);
 		if (config_with_options(show_all_config, NULL,
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index c870b9719c..e5c9b8729d 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
 	{ "column", cmd_column, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY },
 	{ "commit", cmd_commit, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
 	{ "commit-tree", cmd_commit_tree, RUN_SETUP },
-	{ "config", cmd_config, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY },
+	{ "config", cmd_config, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY | DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG },
 	{ "count-objects", cmd_count_objects, RUN_SETUP },
 	{ "credential", cmd_credential, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY },
 	{ "describe", cmd_describe, RUN_SETUP },
diff --git a/t/t7006-pager.sh b/t/t7006-pager.sh
index a46a079339..95bd26f0b2 100755
--- a/t/t7006-pager.sh
+++ b/t/t7006-pager.sh
@@ -245,13 +245,13 @@ test_expect_success TTY 'git branch --set-upstream-to ignores pager.branch' '
 	! test -e paginated.out
 '
 
-test_expect_success TTY 'git config respects pager.config when setting' '
+test_expect_success TTY 'git config ignores pager.config when setting' '
 	rm -f paginated.out &&
 	test_terminal git -c pager.config config foo.bar bar &&
-	test -e paginated.out
+	! test -e paginated.out
 '
 
-test_expect_failure TTY 'git config --edit ignores pager.config' '
+test_expect_success TTY 'git config --edit ignores pager.config' '
 	rm -f paginated.out editor.used &&
 	write_script editor <<-\EOF &&
 		touch editor.used
@@ -261,10 +261,10 @@ test_expect_failure TTY 'git config --edit ignores pager.config' '
 	test -e editor.used
 '
 
-test_expect_success TTY 'git config --get respects pager.config' '
+test_expect_success TTY 'git config --get ignores pager.config' '
 	rm -f paginated.out &&
 	test_terminal git -c pager.config config --get foo.bar &&
-	test -e paginated.out
+	! test -e paginated.out
 '
 
 test_expect_success TTY 'git config --get-urlmatch defaults to not paging' '