How to exit a git status list in a terminal

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I m new to Git and the terminal  How can I exit a listing mode generated by the git status command

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My preferred combo is Gq  which prints all diffs and then exits   You can type h to show the help commands for interacting with less  which prints this to console                      SUMMARY OF LESS COMMANDS        Commands marked with   may be preceded by a number  N        Notes in parentheses indicate the behavior if N is given     h  H                 Display this help    q   q  Q   Q  ZZ     Exit   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------                             MOVING    e   E  j   N  CR     Forward  one line    or N lines     y   Y  k   K   P     Backward one line    or N lines     f   F   V  SPACE     Forward  one window  or N lines     b   B  ESC-v         Backward one window  or N lines     z                    Forward  one window  and set window to N     w                    Backward one window  and set window to N     ESC-SPACE            Forward  one window  but don t stop at end-of-file    d   D                Forward  one half-window  and set half-window to N     u   U                Backward one half-window  and set half-window to N     ESC-   RightArrow    Left  one half screen width  or N positions     ESC-   LeftArrow     Right one half screen width  or N positions     F                    Forward forever  like  tail -f     r   R   L            Repaint screen    R                    Repaint screen  discarding buffered input          ---------------------------------------------------         Default  window  is the screen height          Default  half-window  is half of the screen height   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------                            SEARCHING     pattern             Search forward for  N-th  matching line     pattern             Search backward for  N-th  matching line    n                    Repeat previous search  for N-th occurrence     N                    Repeat previous search in reverse direction    ESC-n                Repeat previous search  spanning files    ESC-N                Repeat previous search  reverse dir   amp  spanning files    ESC-u                Undo  toggle  search highlighting          ---------------------------------------------------         Search patterns may be modified by one or more of           N or    Search for NON-matching lines           E or    Search multiple files  pass thru END OF FILE            F or    Start search at FIRST file  for    or last file  for              K       Highlight matches  but don t move  KEEP position            R       Don t use REGULAR EXPRESSIONS   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------                             JUMPING    g   lt   ESC- lt           Go to first line in file  or line N     G   gt   ESC- gt           Go to last line in file  or line N     p                    Go to beginning of file  or N percent into file     t                    Go to the  N-th  next tag    T                    Go to the  N-th  previous tag                         Find close bracket                               Find open bracket          ESC- F  lt c1 gt   lt c2 gt      Find close bracket  lt c2 gt     ESC- B  lt c1 gt   lt c2 gt      Find open bracket  lt c1 gt           ---------------------------------------------------

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If you are on the git bash try using exit   I tried using the q or ctrl   q but they did not worked on bash

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Crt   c works for Windows  user1852392

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for windows    Ctrl   q and c for exit the running situation

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q  that s a less command  actually  It uses the same commands as vi

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Please try this steps in git bash  It may help you    CTRL   C  qa

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I have to guess here  but git is probably running its output into your  PAGER program  likely less or more  In either case  typing q should get you out

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Type  q  and it will do the job   Whenever you are at the terminal and have a similar predicament keep in mind also to try and type  quit    exit  as well as the abort key combination  Ctrl   C

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first of all you need to setup line ending preferences in termnial   git config --global core autocrlf input git config --global core safecrlf true   Then you can use  q

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q or SHIFT q will do the trick  This will get you out of many extensive page scrolling sessions like git status  git show HEAD  git diff etc  This will not exit your window or end your session

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You can disable pager for commands that don t recognize --no-pager flag   git config --global pager  lt command gt  false   I disable for log aliases and set specific quantity to return   git config --global pager log false

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If you are facing this   Sometimes it is possible that while writing in Gitbash you get into  gt  and you just can not get out of that  It happens with me quite often while I type   by mistake in Gitbash See in the image   How to solve this in Mac   control   C  I have not checked it in Windows  But if it does please edit that in my answer

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Before pressing exit commands q  etc    check current input language  if it isn t English commands may not work

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exit did it for me  My results after pressing return   my-mac Car Game mymac  exit logout Saving session       copying shared history       saving history   truncating history files           completed   Process completed

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