From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:07:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER if there is no diff
Message-ID: <20081216040722.GA4551@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87oczcx6ky.fsf@jidanni.org>

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:16:29AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> 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