Make git believe it is writing to a tty so that it invokes its pager #574
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This change makes git and delta believe that they are writing to a tty so that they invoke their child pager processes, as is required for the test. However, output is actually redirected to /dev/null. TODO: implement for the Linux version of script also. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1402389/583763
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https://stackoverflow.com/a/1402389/583763
cc @Kr1ss-XD this was a new unix command for me! I've only done it for MacOS currently; I think the version of
scriptwill have a different command line API on Linux (I use the GNU versions of things on MacOS when possible but it wasn't clear to me that such a thing existed in this case.)