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Re: git diff shows no output

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 13:38 UTC
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<20100820133856.GC15736@burratino>
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<EBCC0FEA-1FF2-4909-BE80-DE280C9D6487@lltech.fr>
Hi!
Charles Brossollet wrote:
> "git diff" shows nothing, while "git diff | cat" shows the diff, as
> well as "git diff>output.txt" puts diff in output.txt.

"git diff" paginates its output by default. Perhaps your $LESS contains -F but not -X?

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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