From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:26:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager
Message-ID: <20121029062657.GB5102@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1351455166-2579-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx>

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 04:12:46PM -0400, Patrick Palka wrote:

> You can override an option set in the LESS variable by simply prefixing
> the command line option with `-+`. This is more robust than the previous
> example if the default LESS options are to ever change.

Yeah, the current description is quite tortured and complex. I wondered
if there might be some reason, but I think it is simply that fee7545 was
over-zealous in adopting the original text. Yours is much more sensible.

Thanks.

-Peff