From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:51:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] diff-highlight: add `less -r` to cmd in README
Message-ID: <xmqqwptybvk5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151103211435.GA22484@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I agree with Junio that "-R" is a more sensible default, but I don't
> think that should be necessary. We already set LESS when running the
> pager (and if you are overriding it, you are already in trouble, because
> git itself will generate ANSI codes by default).

I do not quite understand this part.  Inside git itself when we
spawn the pager we export LESS with a sensible default, exactly to
help users who do not have LESS set and exported.  This one however
is not spawned by git but the end-user piping output of diff-hilite.

I agree that if the user has LESS exported without -R that would not
be pretty while viewing coloured output.