Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <17846.20498.635623.173653@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701211207500.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 12:08:25 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:

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>Hi,
>
>On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> By the way, was the pager configured to saner values, so "git diff" on a 
>> repository with no changes does not output empty page?
>
>As Junio mentioned: it already does. Maybe you have set the environment 
>variable "LESS", and forgot to include "-F"?

I can't seem to get this to work, no matter what I do, using the latest 1.5.0-rc2 code. I have the environment variables LESS, PAGER, PAGER_FLAGS, and I can't seem to get 'git diff' to not plough through my screen each time it is run, no matter the combinations... Could someone post the magic?

Bill

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