Re: prune/prune-packed

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 27, 2006, 21:55 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy7r1ctku.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1161983997.2426.422.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>

Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:

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> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 22:27, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Sorry, but you are right and Linus is more right.  How about
>> doing FRSX.
>> 
>> diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
>> index 8bd33a1..4587fbb 100644
>> --- a/pager.c
>> +++ b/pager.c
>> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ void setup_pager(void)
>>  	close(fd[0]);
>>  	close(fd[1]);
>>  
>> -	setenv("LESS", "FRS", 0);
>> +	setenv("LESS", "FRSX", 0);
>>  	run_pager(pager);
>>  	die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager);
>>  	exit(255);
>
> I'm a little confused by all this because I
> set the LESS environment variable by myself
> already.  And I use the value that I like.
> Why change it or override the user's settings
> like this?  Or did I miss something?

This is about "if user does not set it, use this default".