From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:40:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Confusing language in man page
Message-ID: <20070715094038.GE2568@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0707141327k5b6f8f43sc6330ff8cc504dd1@mail.gmail.com>

Satyam Sharma, Sat, Jul 14, 2007 22:27:52 +0200:
> * On my system, doing:
> 
> $ git diff
> 
> with no outstanding changes in my current working tree produces some
> bogus newlines, throwing the prompt to the bottom of the xterm window.
> This sounds like weird / undesirable behaviour and I have a feeling must
> already be fixed in latest git (?)

It is not git. It is the program less which git uses. The problem is
known to the author of less.