From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:23:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Git pager woes
Message-ID: <48EB70C4.1070001@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130810070643m352ea2ufa1069dc149f0d9e@mail.gmail.com>

J.R. Mauro wrote:
> 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?

Go complain to Gentoo. If the user has set it explicitly (even if that
happens behind the user's back), we absolutely mustn't fiddle with it.

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