git --help breaks with bat manpager about bat

[starfall-system]

groff version? If 1.23.0, adding MANROFFOPT='-c' will probably fix the output.

cf. #2593 (comment)

[keith-hall]

Interesting, that exact same invocation works fine for me with no spurious 4m etc stuff in the output. Just as a quick sanity check, does it make a difference with --pager=never in the mix? i.e. MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p --pager=never'" git commit --help

[hamza1311]

I just tried it and no, it's the highlighting that's messing up, not the pager

[hamza1311]

groff version? If 1.23.0, adding MANROFFOPT='-c' will probably fix the output.

cf. #2593 (comment)

Running MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'" MANROFFOPT='-c' git commit --help fixes it, thanks for help. Perhaps this should be added in the README?

$ groff -v

GNU groff version 1.23.0
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING.

called subprograms:

GNU grops (groff) version 1.23.0
GNU troff (groff) version 1.23.0

[Diti]

Running MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'" MANROFFOPT='-c' git commit --help fixes it, thanks for help. Perhaps this should be added in the README?

It has already been added in README.md, about 4 years ago (#45f3c733)!