Re: git diff --name-status does not always list changed files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2008, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejawhi6a.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <bdca99240802281323x1ec904ddq914ac2c484e7c468@mail.gmail.com>

"Sebastian Schuberth" <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Doesn't reproduce for me.
>>
>>         $ rm -fr /var/tmp/j && mkdir -p /var/tmp/j && cd /var/tmp/j
>>         $ git init
>>         Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>
> Can you reproduce it if you do
>
> $ git config core.pager "less -F"
>
> after "git init"? The "-F" seems to be important, but I'm not sure why
> using this switch causes no files to be displayed in this case.

Then isn't it what you are asking "less" to do?

Try "less -FX". FYI, by default, we use "LESS=FRSX" exported unless the user knows better than us and uses something of his own.