log command fails if you don't see all output?

aliases/available/jake-aliases.aliases.bash

@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ alias unlock='git unlock'
 # bare command's behavior to continue to track as-if it were just adding git to it. I do expect their
 # behavior to remain how it's described here, though.
 alias rainbow='git rainbow' # colored graphlines in the terminal
+# TODO: why does quitting `less` with q cause these commands to fail?
+# Testing seems to indicate that git considers a failure to get to the end of output
+# to be a failure in this way
 alias logp='git logp' # log with patch
 alias logs='git logs' # log with stats (+++-- indicators)
 alias logn='git logn' # log with numstats