Should git help respect the 'pager' setting?

I have my global git config pager set to 'cat', but when I do a git help command, it still uses a pager. This is especially irksome in emacs shell buffers, where I am most of the time. I know I can do a M-x man - git-whatever, but wondered if this was a bug or user error. (git --no-pager help

Advice and repo setup

My company is moving from CVS to git in a few weeks (and we have a training class scheduled with the github folks). That said our CI/build guys have already got gitorious set up (we get to it through ssh with ssh keys and one git user on the server) and we are in the process of migrating all new