Documentation: clarify pager.<cmd> configuration
It was not obvious from the text that pager.<cmd> is a boolean setting. While we're changing the description, make some other improvements: lest we forget and fret, clarify that -p and pager.<cmd> do not kick in when stdout is not a tty; point to related core.pager and GIT_PAGER settings; use renamed --paginate option. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -979,9 +979,11 @@ pack.packSizeLimit::
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linkgit:git-repack[1].
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pager.<cmd>::
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- Allows to set your own pager preferences for each command, overriding
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- the default. If `\--pager` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command
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- line, it takes precedence over this option.
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+ Allows turning on or off pagination of the output of a
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+ particular git subcommand when writing to a tty. If
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+ `\--paginate` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command line,
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+ it takes precedence over this option. To disable pagination for
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+ all commands, set `core.pager` or 'GIT_PAGER' to "`cat`".
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pull.octopus::
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The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches