How to make git log not prompt to continue?

Question

I have a couple of git repositories that belong together, and simple batch/bash file to loop over them. I often loop over them with a log command to quickly see what state t

Answer 1

Git has an option to disable the pager:

git --no-pager log --decorate=short --pretty=oneline -n1

If your pager cuts lines and you want to retain that behaviour, either pipe to cut...

git --no-pager log --decorate=short --pretty=oneline -n1 | cut -c 1-$COLUMNS

...or set the environment variable GIT_PAGER before the invocation:

GIT_PAGER="cut -c 1-${COLUMNS-80}" git --no-pager log --decorate=short --pretty=oneline -n1