how to disable piping of stdout to less with i.e. git branch ?

[dulhaver]

a non-oh-my-bash system git branch does roughly this:

user@vm-51150-0128:~/repos/ansible> git branch
  exe/prepare_postgres_workshop_230120
  feature/step_preps_generalized_230106
  mariadb_install_VM-413301-0001
* master
  master_copy_221213
  pgBackRest_step_install
gwagner@vm-51150-0128:~/repos/ansible>

so, it returns to stdout and provides a fresh prompt and you can proceed working.

with oh-my-bash this changes to some sort on less-ish output behaviour , meaning the stdout is piped to less.

user@vm-414001-0318 02:50:56 ~/repos/build_etcd |main U:2 ?:7 ✗| →  gb

  build_pg-15-postgis-3.2
  build_with_podman
* master
(END)

you need to leave that with the q to get back to a fresh prompt to continue working.

I find this not practical and am wondering how to switch this off in an oh-my-bash powered terminal?

[tyleralbee]

If I understand correctly, this is because of two things:

1. git branch is piped to less
2. less is aliased to alias less='less -FSRXc' (see aliases/general.aliases.sh)

I agree that for most people's use-case it's not practical for this to be the default behavior. You'd have to press q even if there was no output. I was thinking this was done so that you could have "hot reload" for commands like git diff but it doesn't seem like that works.

Is this meant to happen even when there's no output (e.g. from git diff)?

[dulhaver]

Is this meant to happen even when there's no output (e.g. from git diff)?

it behaves like that, yes.

[Kreyren]

how to disable piping of stdout to less with i.e. git branch ?

$ git branch 1>/dev/null # Pipes stdout to /dev/null

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-redirect-output-and-errors-to-devnull/

Additionally you should just be able to pipe it even when it's doing less.