From 124b51909dab82151dff8ae8fd3a588a8846c7ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:18:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] pager: do not leak "GIT_PAGER_IN_USE" to the pager Since 2e6c012e (setup_pager: set GIT_PAGER_IN_USE, 2011-08-17), we export GIT_PAGER_IN_USE so that a process that becomes the upstream of the spawned pager can still tell that we have spawned the pager and decide to do colored output even when its output no longer goes to a terminal (i.e. isatty(1)). But we forgot to clear it from the enviornment of the spawned pager. This is not a problem in a sane world, but if you have a handful of thousands Git users in your organization, somebody is bound to do strange things, e.g. typing "!" instead of 'q' to get control back from $LESS. GIT_PAGER_IN_USE is still set in that subshell spawned by "less", and all sorts of interesting things starts happening, e.g. "git diff | cat" starts coloring its output. We can clear the environment variable in the half of the fork that runs the pager to avoid the confusion. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano Acked-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- pager.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c index f6e8c33192..d40288b3e4 100644 --- a/pager.c +++ b/pager.c @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ void setup_pager(void) argv_array_push(&pager_process.env_array, "LESS=FRX"); if (!getenv("LV")) argv_array_push(&pager_process.env_array, "LV=-c"); + argv_array_push(&pager_process.env_array, "GIT_PAGER_IN_USE"); if (start_command(&pager_process)) return;