How do you get `git grep` to return results without a pager?

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How do you get git grep to return results without a pager? Grep does this by default. When I pipe git grep to cat: git grep foo | cat it does this but it loses the highlighting on the match. I want to keep the highlighting on the match without doing git grep foo | cat | grep foo.

You could configure the pager.grep options like this: ``` git config --global pager.grep false ``` — mxi1, Mar 01 '21 at 08:49

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '17 at 15:41

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You can either use the --no-pager parameter like git --no-pager grep foo or tell grep to always do the highlighting even if you pipe the result to some other process with git grep --color=always foo | cat. Or you can set the config option core.pager to cat like git -c core.pager=cat grep foo or of course permanently with git config core.pager cat which will then work for all Git commands that would be sent to the pager and also preserves the highlighting.

answered Mar 02 '17 at 15:41

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this no longer works – JacobIRR May 18 '23 at 15:15
What exactly? For me all work just the same @JacobIRR – Vampire May 18 '23 at 17:21
it doesn't recognize the --no-pager arg – JacobIRR May 19 '23 at 14:06
For me it works fine and also the docs still have it. – Vampire May 20 '23 at 17:24

How do you get `git grep` to return results without a pager?

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