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Package: git-core
Version: 1:1.4.4.4-1
Severity: normal
If you run git-log --pretty=foo, it fails with the message "fatal: invalid
--pretty format: foo", but it still opens a pager displaying no content.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-rc4
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages git-core depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.15.5-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith
ii liberror-perl 0.15-8 Perl module for error/exception ha
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules
ii rcs 5.7-18 The GNU Revision Control System
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages git-core recommends:
ii curl 7.15.5-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS, FT
ii git-doc 1:1.4.4.4-1 content addressable filesystem (do
ii less 394-4 Pager program similar to more
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:4.3p2-8 Secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii rsync 2.6.9-3 fast remote file copy program (lik
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Version: 1:1.5.5-1
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:00:30AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:37:09AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Why not just avoid starting the pager if an error (such as an invalid
> > argument) occurs?
>
> Unfortunately it's not that easy. By current design, the pager is
> started before the error is detected, and it's not trivial to change it.
>
> But current design also hides the return code of git-log in such cases,
> by using the reutrn code of the pager, so it definitly should be
> improved.
Hi, upstream now changed 'git log' to print error messages to stdout, so
that they appear inside the pager, if the pager is a different program
than less, or LESS is set in the environment.
Regards, Gerrit.
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