Question

I generally like the use of the pager in git, but for git stash the pager annoys me. When calling git stash list, I don’t want to be shown the three lines of output in the pager — it forces me to press q just to make the output unavailable again when typing the folow-up git stash pop command.

One solution would be to use

git --no-pager stash list

but that’s to much typing (I’m lazy). Following the man page of git config, I tried

git config --global pager.stash false

but this doesn’t seem to do what the documentation says (actually, I didn’t notice any effect). Then I tried

git config --global alias.stash "--no-pager stash"

again without any noticable effect.

The configuration gets properly updated, for example

git config pager.stash
false

It just does not have any effect. What am I missing? And how can I achieve that git stash does not use the pager?

Answer 1

As of 1.7.7.3, git config --global pager.stash false accomplishes this.