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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-03-02 12:44:11 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-03-02 12:44:11 -0800
commit52ebb06f1466a235c643acffdea9c9e484cfdec0 (patch)
treeb7bfae26f5719b8447ef176f4df4437d1e3fc4a9 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'ml/encode-header-refactor' (diff)
parenttests: Fix race condition in t7006-pager (diff)
downloadtgif-52ebb06f1466a235c643acffdea9c9e484cfdec0.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jn/maint-fix-pager'
* jn/maint-fix-pager: tests: Fix race condition in t7006-pager t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new one tests: Add tests for automatic use of pager am: Fix launching of pager git svn: Fix launching of pager git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate option Make 'git var GIT_PAGER' always print the configured pager Fix 'git var' usage synopsis
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-var.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-var.txt b/Documentation/git-var.txt
index bb981822a4..458f3e2755 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-var.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-var.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-var - Show a git logical variable
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git var' [ -l | <variable> ]
+'git var' ( -l | <variable> )
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index cc32ce18d2..98b6e16982 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -230,7 +230,10 @@ help ...`.
-p::
--paginate::
- Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER).
+ Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER) if standard
+ output is a terminal. This overrides the `pager.<cmd>`
+ configuration options (see the "Configuration Mechanism" section
+ below).
--no-pager::
Do not pipe git output into a pager.
@@ -402,7 +405,8 @@ people. Here is an example:
------------
Various commands read from the configuration file and adjust
-their operation accordingly.
+their operation accordingly. See linkgit:git-config[1] for a
+list.
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