# git diff shows no output 3 messages from 2010-08-20 to 2010-08-23. Participants: Charles Brossollet, Jonathan Nieder. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24805 ## Charles Brossollet, 2010-08-20 13:02 Subject: git diff shows no output Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/EBCC0FEA-1FF2-4909-BE80-DE280C9D6487%40lltech.fr ``` Hello, I'm a new user of git, and I meet a very strange behaviour with the git diff command. I have modified stuff in a file, with changes both in the index and the working tree. "git diff" shows nothing, while "git diff | cat" shows the diff, as well as "git diff>output.txt" puts diff in output.txt. Quite Weird I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.4, using git 1.7.2.1, installed via macports. Best, -- Charles ``` ## Jonathan Nieder, 2010-08-20 13:38 Subject: Re: git diff shows no output Message-ID: <20100820133856.GC15736@burratino> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100820133856.GC15736%40burratino In-Reply-To: ``` Hi! Charles Brossollet wrote: > "git diff" shows nothing, while "git diff | cat" shows the diff, as > well as "git diff>output.txt" puts diff in output.txt. "git diff" paginates its output by default. Perhaps your $LESS contains -F but not -X? Hope that helps, Jonathan ``` ## Charles Brossollet, 2010-08-23 06:34 Subject: Re: git diff shows no output Message-ID: <5A25561B-B643-4203-82B7-BCED02EAFC61@lltech.fr> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5A25561B-B643-4203-82B7-BCED02EAFC61%40lltech.fr In-Reply-To: <20100820133856.GC15736@burratino> ``` That's right, nice guess!! thanks a lot! Best -- Charles Le 20 août 2010 à 15:38, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > Hi! > > Charles Brossollet wrote: > >> "git diff" shows nothing, while "git diff | cat" shows the diff, as >> well as "git diff>output.txt" puts diff in output.txt. > > "git diff" paginates its output by default. Perhaps your $LESS > contains -F but not -X? > > Hope that helps, > Jonathan ```