Teach 'diff' about 'diff' attribute.

diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index 280f57f796c84d1c1fd54e295b542c3b33490b3e..5f280ab52720772905cacbcba522ecc9c81bb529 100644 (file)
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 
+#include <sys/select.h>
+
 /*
  * This is split up from the rest of git so that we might do
  * something different on Windows, for example.
@@ -7,6 +9,16 @@
 
 static void run_pager(const char *pager)
 {
+       /*
+        * Work around bug in "less" by not starting it until we
+        * have real input
+        */
+       fd_set in;
+
+       FD_ZERO(&in);
+       FD_SET(0, &in);
+       select(1, &in, NULL, &in, NULL);
+
        execlp(pager, pager, NULL);
        execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", pager, NULL);
 }
@@ -15,10 +27,12 @@ void setup_pager(void)
 {
        pid_t pid;
        int fd[2];
-       const char *pager = getenv("PAGER");
+       const char *pager = getenv("GIT_PAGER");
 
        if (!isatty(1))
                return;
+       if (!pager)
+               pager = getenv("PAGER");
        if (!pager)
                pager = "less";
        else if (!*pager || !strcmp(pager, "cat"))
@@ -48,7 +62,7 @@ void setup_pager(void)
        close(fd[0]);
        close(fd[1]);
 
-       setenv("LESS", "-RS", 0);
+       setenv("LESS", "FRSX", 0);
        run_pager(pager);
        die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager);
        exit(255);