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Re: git-diff not showing changes (corrupt repo?)

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 3, 2007, 04:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20071003043856.GC11905@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<470313D0.7020808@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:00:16PM -0500, Dan Zwell wrote:
> You're absolutely right, my pager was being called and exiting. My system 
> configuration must be dodgy, because "echo hi | less --quit-if-one-screen" 
> does not display anything unless it in run in "screen". But that's not git's

This is obviously getting into less debugging (about which I know little), but it's possible that you have a bogus TERM setting.

> fault, and I just need different options, for now. Thanks a lot for helping 
> me solve this.

Thank you for providing such helpful details. It really makes a difference.

-Peff
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