Why do I have to hit 'Q' at the end of 'git log'?

Question

Consider:

git log -n 20 --pretty=oneline

I am telling Git that I need to see only the last 20 commits. I hate to hit Q to get ri

Answer 1

If you want to use --no-pager in an alias, set up your alias this way:

hist = !git --no-pager log --pretty=format:\"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]\" --graph --date=short