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Re: Confusing language in man page

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SSSatyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 15, 2007, 21:25 UTC
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On 7/15/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Satyam Sharma, Sat, Jul 14, 2007 22:27:52 +0200:

Ok, the first two were silly questions I got answered as I got to know more about git automatically :-)

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> > * On my system, doing:
> >
> > $ git diff
> >
> > with no outstanding changes in my current working tree produces some
> > bogus newlines, throwing the prompt to the bottom of the xterm window.
> > This sounds like weird / undesirable behaviour and I have a feeling must
> > already be fixed in latest git (?)
>
> It is not git. It is the program less which git uses. The problem is
> known to the author of less.

As for this one, I sent out a mail to bug-less@ just in case -- it's a weird and annoying thing.

Thanks!
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