From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:42:07 GMT
Subject: Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)
Message-ID: <7vzlpe8nyo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0806211430x3d7195d8idc61b7103f899947@mail.gmail.com>

"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
>>
>> Since git 1.5.6, `git status` always invokes a pager, which is really
>> annoying when the output is less than the number of terminal rows
>> available. Can I turn that off somehow or do I need to send a reverting
>> patch?
>
> I think it would work to set PAGER="less -F" (a.k.a. --quit-if-one-screen)?

Probably better with LESS=FRSX, which is what git uses as a sane default
if nothing is set.