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Re: Proposal about --help options and man calls

From
Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2007, 03:49 UTC
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On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> What's the reason to set GIT_PAGER and PAGER differently to
> begin with?  Can people give examples of the reason why?

I currently have GIT_PAGER (actually, core.pager) set to tig. Tig has lots of useful features for visualizing history and jumping between patches and logs.

But for everything that isn't git, less is far better.
~~ Brian
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  1. David KastrupJul 18, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 18, 2007
  3. David KastrupJul 18, 2007
  4. Steven GrimmJul 19, 2007
  5. Brian GernhardtJul 19, 2007

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