From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:36:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] pager: default to LESS=FRX not LESS=FRSX Message-ID: <20070326083617.GG13247@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <7vwt14xvaw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eygene Ryabinkin writes: > > > Remove unnecessary '-S' option that enabled less to chop long lines. > > It used to provide some confusion at least for the 'git diff': > > "Where are my long lines? Are they missed from the patch?". > > It is not "unnecessary", but only "what _you_ are not used to". > As this breaks expectentions of people already familiar with > what git does by default, I cannot take this patch. Hear hear. I completely agree with Junio. I (and a number of other users that I work with) expect this behevaior by default. -- Shawn.