Hacker News Reader

Comment by cassepipe | Hacker News Reader

I discovered that you can have git use the pager you like so I set it to my darling : bat

    git config --global core.pager bat

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/

View on HN

You can also do that with delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta), with additional options that you can put on your .gitconfig

Is there an advantage to doing this over setting the GIT_PAGER environment variable?

(Weirdly, git doesn't seem to honour the PAGER var (which would be even better), although its man page claims it does)

Less env pollution.

I never used that env variable, but, an advantage is that you can put all your git configs in one file and reuse it across different machines, just like any dotfile.

If you use --local instead of --global, you can configure just for the current repository, useful if may find that delta is or isn't the best choice just for that repository

It just makes everything perfect.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com