How can I turn on a pager for the output of git status?
I want the output of git status
to be returned in a less
-like environment. This already works for git diff
, but not git status
. I already tried adding the following to ~/.gitconfig
, but it didn't work:
[core]
pager = less
What am I missing? Thanks.
Solution 1:
You can turn on and off paging of specific commands with the pager.<cmd>
setting, in this case pager.status
:
If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty. Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the pager specified by the value of pager.<cmd>.
Run the following to enable paging for status
subcommand:
git config --global pager.status true
or manually add the following to the end of your ~/.gitconfig:
[pager]
status = true
If you just want to turn paging on or off for a specific invocation, you can use option -p
/--paginate
respectively -P
/--no-pager
to the git
command itself as well, e.g.:
git -p status
Solution 2:
For one-off:
git -p status
Or --paginate
. Colourised. Works everywhere. Including errors/help.
git -p status -h
is much better than having to grab stderr with git status -h |& less
Though long help messed up my terminal: git -p status --help