Git命令执行（如“git diff”或“git help commit”）返回有关“敏感文件”的错误

Question

On my Xubuntu 14.04 system I've installed Git using

sudo apt-get install git

It's working all right (I'm only starting to learn it), but execution of

git diff

returns

error: cannot run sensible-paper: No such file or directory

as its first line. After the first line it gives the differences between the files, in other words, works all right.

Furthermore, command

man git

(or any other help commands, like git help commit ) returns:

man: can't execute sensible-paper: No such file or directory
man: command exited with status 255: (cd /home/max/Desktop/Git Learning && LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page git-commit(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page git-commit(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$ MAN_PN=git-commit(1) sensible-paper)

And so I can't get any help on Git at all (from my shell). I've Googled for solution, but couldn't find anything similar to the above errors. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

sensible-paper is clearly a typo for sensible-pager , which should be the pager executed by default.

To find out which environment variable is mis-set, you can run

env | grep sensible-paper

To ask Git to use sensible-pager anyway, run

git config --global core.pager sensible-pager

Answer 2

It is a ranger problem.DEFAULT_PAGER value is misspelled: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ranger/+bug/1331444 .

Change sensible-paper to sensible-pager in the foloowing files:

/usr/share/ranger/ranger/ext/rifle.py:23:DEFAULT_PAGER = 'sensible-paper'
/usr/share/ranger/ranger/__init__.py:27:DEFAULT_PAGER = 'sensible-paper'
/usr/share/ranger/rifle:23:DEFAULT_PAGER = 'sensible-paper'