As the GIF above shows, running git log in my WSL2 Ubuntu suddenly became noninteractive. It would show all the logs at once (while the Windows counterpart seemed to be working fine). git has already been updated to the latest version, and this behavior is also present when running WSL2 by itself, i.e., not using the Windows Terminal app. Any ideas on what caused the issue? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

git log is supposed to show a list of all the commits to the repository, so it's working as intended see documentation? Maybe you never noticed it before because your repo was smaller? And now you've got so many commits its freezing? Is it only temporary? (your GIF looks like its piping through a tool like less)

If you don't want this, use some command-line arguments to refine what you are doing.

git log -n 1

Shows only the most recent commit. -n 2 shows the two most recent, and so on...

Many of the windows git tools are wrappers for git, so maybe they do extra stuff which would explain differences in behaviour that you've seen

CodePudding user response：

It seems no pager is working on your Ubuntu. Try git -c core.pager=more log or git -c core.pager=less log on Ubuntu. It could still not work if more or less is not available on your Ubuntu. If it works, you can set a global option by

git config --global core.pager less
# or "more", depending on which takes effect

Besides, you can disable the pager temporarily by git --no-pager log.