Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 20:12 UTC
Message-ID: <17846.27694.845530.663964@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701232012120.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 20:12:36 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:

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>Hi,
>
>On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>Try this:
>
>	PAGER=less LESS=-FRS git diff

Replied to Johannes off-line and thought this was working --- sorry for the false positive. It is in one regard: it completely suppresses output if there is less than a full screen of output.

If I do this:

% export PAGER=less % unset LESS % git diff

I get 30 lines of output in my current repository, as I should.

If I then do this:

% LESS=-FRS git diff

I get nothing --- I do see a brief blink of output, but it's as if less swallows it whole and I see nothing but the next prompt.

Hmmm ... I do seem to be using a rather old version of less:

Could this be the culprit? Will try and see... Nope, downloaded, built, and installed less-394 and I still see the same problem. I also see this problem when I do 'man git-gc', for example --- the manpage just disappears.

If I set LESS to '-F' it fails. If set to '-RS', output is seen but then I see the screen blanked when there is no output from git diff.

This is on Centos 4.3. I have not yet tried this on my Fedora Core 6 laptop, at home...

Bill