Resizing window while showing git log locks up Command Line

Adam Dinwoodie adam@dinwoodie.org
Wed Dec 21 21:30:35 GMT 2022


On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 16:08, Gregory Mason via Cygwin wrote:
>
> Hello Cygwin volunteers,
>
> I was asked to forward this bug report from the git-for-windows bug report: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4060
> Original bug report from garretwilson
>
> > Find a Git repository with a long commit history.
> > Enter `git log`
> > Git will show the log history and wait for you to page through the history or hit q to exit.
> > Press Win+Left-Arrow to snap the window to the left side of the screen.
> > The window is now hung. Nothing can be typed to get it un-hung. Typing q does nothing. Typing Ctrl+C does nothing. Typing <Enter> does nothing. > The only way out of this is to close the terminal window and start a new Command Prompt or PowerShell session.
> >
> > I've reproduced this with Command Line and with PowerShell 7.2.6.
>
> I am also experiencing this issue with the following setup:
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044 version 3.4.3-1.x86_64 (runneradmin@fv-az479-541) (gcc version 11.3.0 (GCC) ) 2022-12-16 12:38 UTC
>
> Windows 10
> Version 21H2
> Installed on    ?7/?11/?2022
> OS build        19044.2251
> Experience      Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0
>
> If you need further information, please let me know.

This looks like it's an issue with less, which will be the pager that
Git is using. I've just verified I can reproduce it by running
`C:\cygwin64\bin\less.exe C:\cygwin64\var\log\setup.log` from within a
PowerShell terminal, then resizing the terminal; it doesn't need to be
a "snap" to trigger the behaviour.

Somewhat to my surprise, `more` and `vim` don't exhibit this behaviour.


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