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Re: [PATCH] pager: default to LESS=FRX not LESS=FRSX

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 26, 2007, 08:28 UTC
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Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> writes:
> Remove unnecessary '-S' option that enabled less to chop long lines.
> It used to provide some confusion at least for the 'git diff':
> "Where are my long lines? Are they missed from the patch?".

It is not "unnecessary", but only "what _you_ are not used to". As this breaks expectentions of people already familiar with what git does by default, I cannot take this patch.

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  1. pager: default to LESS=FRX not LESS=FRSXEygene Ryabinkin, Mar 26, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceMar 26, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2007
  5. Eygene RyabinkinMar 26, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2007
  7. Jeff KingMar 26, 2007
  8. Eygene RyabinkinMar 27, 2007
  9. Bill LearMar 26, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2007
  11. Eygene RyabinkinMar 27, 2007

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