How to exit git log or git diff

Question

I m trying to learn Git with the help of Git Immersion  There s one thing that frustrates me whenever I use git log or git diff     I can t figure out what to do next when I encounter this  END  word   I can t type any commands  and I end up closing the current Bash window and open another  How do I type in the next command that I want to use

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I wanted to give some kudos to the comment that mentioned CTRL + Z as an option. At the end of the day, it's going to depend on what system that you have Git installed on and what program is configured to open text files (e.g. less vs. vim). CTRL + Z works for vim on Windows.

If you're using Git in a Windows environment, there are some quirks. Just helps to know what they are. (i.e. Notepad vs. Nano, etc.).

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Actually  there are three ways to do it  precisely   Type any of the following 3 commands     q  z or Ctrl   z   P S   Sometimes  for someone  one of these options doesn t seem to work and for others it works

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You re in the less program  which makes the output of git log scrollable   Type q to exit this screen  Type h to get help   If you don t want to read the output in a pager and want it to be just printed to the terminal define the environment variable GIT PAGER to cat or set core pager to cat  execute git config --global core pager cat

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The END comes from the pager used to display the log  your are at that moment still inside it   Type q to exit it

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You can press q to exit   git hist is using a pager tool so you can scroll up and down the results before returning to the console

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Add following alias in the  bashrc file  git --no-pager log --oneline -n 10    --no-pager will encounter the  END  word -n 10 will show only the last 10 commits --oneline will show the commit message  ignore the author  date information

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In this case  as snarly suggested  typing q is the intended way to quit git log  as with most other pagers or applications that use pagers    However normally  if you just want to abort a command that is currently executing  you can try ctrl c  doesn t seem to work for git log  however  or ctrl z  although in bash  ctrl-z will freeze the currently running foreground process  which can then be thawed as a background process with the bg command

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