Re: git diff sometimes brings up buggy pager

From: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2017, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJZjrdWjcbgqXWYWnc4p5afCuTkr+nK30aQmhTz19PwTcKoraw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3cdbb6a5-55d3-673c-ce31-c3da4d7e17cf@gmail.com>

Any chance you can tell us what repo this happens on? + git version, OS, and what the triggering diff invocation is.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Matthew Groth <mgroth49@gmail.com> wrote:

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> .... it goes on like this for about 10 times the length. Looks like this
> happens exclusively when I use git diff with a github remote that is at the
> same commit. I will update if I find any other case where this happens.
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