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Re: git diff shows no output

From
CBCharles Brossollet <chbrosso@lltech.fr>
Date
Aug 23, 2010, 06:34 UTC
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<5A25561B-B643-4203-82B7-BCED02EAFC61@lltech.fr>
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<20100820133856.GC15736@burratino>
That's right, nice guess!! thanks a lot!
Best
-- 
Charles

Le 20 août 2010 à 15:38, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :

> Hi!
> 
> Charles Brossollet wrote:
> 
>> "git diff" shows nothing, while "git diff | cat" shows the diff, as
>> well as "git diff>output.txt" puts diff in output.txt.
> 
> "git diff" paginates its output by default.  Perhaps your $LESS
> contains -F but not -X?
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
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