Re: [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS
Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> writes:
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> Passing options to "less" with the LESS environment variable can
> interfere with existing environment variables. There are at least two
> problems, as the following examples show:
>
> 1. Alice is using git with colors. Now she decides to set LESS=i for
> some reason. Suddenly, she sees codes in place of colors because LESS
> is no longer set automatically.
>
> 2. Bob sets GIT_PAGER="less -RS", but does not set LESS. Git sets
> LESS=FRSX before calling $GIT_PAGER. Now Bob wonders why his pager is
> not always paging, when he explicitly tried to clear the F option.
3. Christ has been happily using git with his PAGER set to "less". He
suddenly notices that output from git linewraps and the pager does not
exit when showing a short output, and gets very unhappy.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>