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Re: git diff --name-status does not always list changed files

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 28, 2008, 21:23 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Doesn't reproduce for me.
>
>         $ rm -fr /var/tmp/j && mkdir -p /var/tmp/j && cd /var/tmp/j
>         $ git init
>         Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Can you reproduce it if you do
$ git config core.pager "less -F"

after "git init"? The "-F" seems to be important, but I'm not sure why using this switch causes no files to be displayed in this case.

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