tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only

Using, e.g., `git -c pager.tag tag -a new-tag` results in errors such as
"Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal" and a garbled terminal.
Someone who makes use of both `git tag -a` and `git tag -l` will
probably not set `pager.tag`, so that `git tag -a` will actually work,
at the cost of not paging output of `git tag -l`.

Use the mechanisms introduced in two earlier patches to ignore
`pager.tag` in git.c and let the `git tag` builtin handle it on its own.
Only respect `pager.tag` when running in list-mode.

There is a window between where the pager is started before and after
this patch. This means that early errors can behave slightly different
before and after this patch. Since operation-parsing has to happen
inside this window, this can be seen with `git -c pager.tag="echo pager
is used" tag -l --unknown-option`. This change in paging-behavior should
be acceptable since it only affects erroneous usages.

Update the documentation and update tests.

If an alias is used to run `git tag -a`, then `pager.tag` will still be
respected. Document this known breakage. It will be fixed in a later
commit. Add a similar test for `-l`, which works.

Noticed-by: Anatoly Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 1eb15afa1c..875d135e0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ it in the repository configuration as follows:
     signingKey = <gpg-keyid>
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+`pager.tag` is only respected when listing tags, i.e., when `-l` is
+used or implied.
+See linkgit:git-config[1].
 
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