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Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)

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JEJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
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Jun 21, 2008, 21:45 UTC
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On Saturday 2008-06-21 23:42, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>"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.
>

I went with Vegard's suggestion to change the pager command in ~/.gitconfig, since I have the $LESS environment variable already defined as "-MSi", and I do not want to change that; because if I am going to run less (often at the end of a pipe), I certainly do not want it to just quit on me. So -F in $LESS is a no-no.

Since I need "-MRSi" for git anyhow, tweaking ~/.gitconfig was easy.
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  3. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2008
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  6. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2008
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  15. Vegard NossumJun 22, 2008
  16. Johannes GilgerJun 21, 2008
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