git/pager.c
Linus Torvalds 34fd1c9ac5 git-log produces no output
When $PAGER is set to 'less -i', we used to fail because we
assumed the $PAGER is a command and simply exec'ed it.

Try exec first, and then run it through shell if it fails.  This
allows even funkier PAGERs like these ;-):

	PAGER='sed -e "s/^/`date`: /" | more'
	PAGER='contrib/colordiff.perl | less -RS'

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-21 13:00:10 -07:00

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#include "cache.h"
/*
* This is split up from the rest of git so that we might do
* something different on Windows, for example.
*/
static void run_pager(const char *pager)
{
execlp(pager, pager, NULL);
execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", pager, NULL);
}
void setup_pager(void)
{
pid_t pid;
int fd[2];
const char *pager = getenv("PAGER");
if (!isatty(1))
return;
if (!pager)
pager = "less";
else if (!*pager)
return;
if (pipe(fd) < 0)
return;
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0) {
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
return;
}
/* return in the child */
if (!pid) {
dup2(fd[1], 1);
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
return;
}
/* The original process turns into the PAGER */
dup2(fd[0], 0);
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
setenv("LESS", "-S", 0);
run_pager(pager);
die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager);
exit(255);
}