[PATCH] Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager
- From
Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
- Date
- Oct 28, 2012, 20:12 UTC
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- <1351455166-2579-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
You can override an option set in the LESS variable by simply prefixing the command line option with `-+`. This is more robust than the previous example if the default LESS options are to ever change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 11f320b..9a0544c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -538,14 +538,14 @@ core.pager:: `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately, these settings can be overridden on a project or global basis by setting the `core.pager` option. - Setting `core.pager` has no affect on the `LESS` + Setting `core.pager` has no effect on the `LESS` environment variable behaviour above, so if you want to override git's default settings this way, you need to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager` - to `less -+$LESS -FRX`. This will be passed to the - shell by git, which will translate the final command to - `LESS=FRSX less -+FRSX -FRX`. + to `less -+S`. This will be passed to the shell by + git, which will translate the final command to + `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. core.whitespace:: A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
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