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    git.c: ignore pager.* when launching builtin as dashed external · 595d59e2
    Martin Ågren authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    When running, e.g., `git -c alias.bar=foo bar`, we expand the alias and
    execute `git-foo` as a dashed external. This is true even if git foo is
    a builtin. That is on purpose, and is motivated in a comment which was
    added in commit 441981bc ("git: simplify environment save/restore
    logic", 2016-01-26).
    
    Shortly before we launch a dashed external, and unless we have already
    found out whether we should use a pager, we check `pager.foo`. This was
    added in commit 92058e4d
    
     ("support pager.* for external commands",
    2011-08-18). If the dashed external is a builtin, this does not match
    that commit's intention and is arguably wrong, since it would be cleaner
    if we let the "dashed external builtin" handle `pager.foo`.
    
    This has not mattered in practice, but a recent patch taught `git-tag`
    to ignore `pager.tag` under certain circumstances. But, when started
    using an alias, it doesn't get the chance to do so, as outlined above.
    That recent patch added a test to document this breakage.
    
    Do not check `pager.foo` before launching a builtin as a dashed
    external, i.e., if we recognize the name of the external as a builtin.
    Change the test to use `test_expect_success`.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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