Re: [PATCH] doc: add more examples of overriding LESS in core.pager

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 6, 2026, 16:01 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq33uig6nk.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <asQ56mv3VbiYmtwk@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

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> On 2026-10-02 at 23:41:52, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> +Another way to deactivate an option is prefixing `core.pager` with
>> +`LESS="RX"` to remove `-F` or `LESS=""` to override all options.
>> +This is useful if the `core.pager` command eventually runs `less` or
>> +a command which respects the `LESS` environment variable but lacks
>> +command line options to override `LESS` options.
>> ++
>> +One can specifically activate some flags for particular commands: for
>> +example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables line truncation
>> +only for `git blame`.
>
> Sure, this seems like an improvement.  I'm not very particular on the
> wording, but it's good that folks have the information that they need.

Thanks, both, for writing and reviewing.

Let me mark the topic for 'next'.