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Git pager woes

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JMJ.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 7, 2008, 13:43 UTC
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Git doesn't set special options to it's pager command if the LESS environment variable is set. I noticed when I started using Gentoo that git was putting all output into a pager even if it were less than one page, which it didn't do under Ubuntu. A fellow Gentoo user confirms this; apparently Gentoo's defaults set LESS, but without a -F.

Should git always tack on a -F when it invokes less, or should this be put on the user to look up what to do? Or should I go complain to the Gentoo folks?

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