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Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER if there is no diff

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 16, 2008, 04:07 UTC
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<20081216040722.GA4551@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:16:29AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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> JK> The usual workaround is to ask the pager to exit immediately if the
> JK> output is small. I.e., putting "F" in your LESS variable (which git does
> JK> automatically if you don't already have LESS set).
> 
> Ah, but who doesn't have LESS set these days? OK, the man page should
> mention that so people will put the F on their LESS variable, like I
> recall another man page already does.
Not unreasonable. Care to make a patch to the documentation?
-Peff
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