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Provide a build time default-pager setting
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:45:34 +0000 (20:45 -0500)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:20:56 +0000 (12:20 -0800)
commita3d023d0a3783612053f2149e784b43befceccad
treeae3aa82e18230a6c45c451710067c972473a134a
parent8f4b576ad14943a7b14cb8937eb321b7bfd91ee7
Provide a build time default-pager setting

Provide a DEFAULT_PAGER knob so packagers can set the fallback
pager to something appropriate during the build.

Examples:

On (old) solaris systems, /usr/bin/less (typically the first less
found) doesn't understand the default arguments (FXRS), which
forces users to alter their environment (PATH, GIT_PAGER, LESS,
etc) or have a local or global gitconfig before paging works as
expected.

On Debian systems, by policy packages must fall back to the
'pager' command, so that changing the target of the
/usr/bin/pager symlink changes the default pager for all packages
at once.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Makefile
pager.c