From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:35:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.4.3
Message-ID: <7v4ptylfvw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vejt5xjt9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

>  - git-diff paginates its output to the tty by default.  If this
>    irritates you, using LESS=RF might help.

I am considering the following to address irritation some people
(including me, actually) are experiencing with this change when
viewing a small (or no) diff.  Any objections?

diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index dcb398d..8bd33a1 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ void setup_pager(void)
 	close(fd[0]);
 	close(fd[1]);
 
-	setenv("LESS", "-RS", 0);
+	setenv("LESS", "FRS", 0);
 	run_pager(pager);
 	die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager);
 	exit(255);