From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:49:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposal about --help options and man calls
Message-ID: <4CE1D7B3-23AF-4BED-862C-B225B29E4811@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v644h715y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>


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