On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 11:08:49AM +0200, Tor Arntsen wrote: > If it's true that Git should demand 'less' to be installed before > being usable out of the box.. well, that's just plain silly. It depends on how you define "out of the box". The person compiling it just needs to set DEFAULT_PAGER appropriately for their system. "less" is a sane choice for most modern systems. But we can make it even easier on AIX people with: diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 34b7dd5..6ad0aca 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),NetBSD) HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease endif ifeq ($(uname_S),AIX) + DEFAULT_PAGER = more NO_STRCASESTR=YesPlease NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease NO_MKDTEMP = YesPlease That won't do automagic run-time detection if you have "less" installed, but given your claim that AIX's "more" actually doesn't suck, it's probably a good default. People who care can set their PAGER environment variable. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html