How to make git diff write to stdout?

Question

By default git diff prints all +- lines to the stdout however I have a (devian) machine (which I connect through ssh) where git diff leads

Answer 1

By default, Git sends its diff output (and generally any output that may be more than a screenful) to the system's pager, which is a utility that prints only one screenful of output at a time. If you want to disable the pager when you run a command, pass --no-pager to Git:

$ git --no-pager  

This can be run for any Git command.

If you want to disable it by default for diff only, you can set the diff pager to cat by running:

$ git config pager.diff false

If you want to disable it by default for all commands, you can set the Git pager to cat by running:

$ git config --global core.pager cat