From: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:25:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Confusing language in man page
Message-ID: <a781481a0707151425q11e35280rd0118ac9e122c55d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070715094038.GE2568@steel.home>

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 :-)

> > * 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!