Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > While I fully agree with the above conclusion, I just noticed that I > will be irritated enough to eventually set pager.blame myself, after > running a short "git blame -L1311,+7 git-p4.py", which is one of the > standard first steps for me to start reading patches submit on the > list. Perhaps it deserves a mention in the doc, e.g. squashing this on top of my patch: diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index b7f92ac..ebd1676 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -570,7 +570,9 @@ command to `LESS=FRX less -S`. The environment does not set the long lines. Similarly, setting `core.pager` to `less -+F` will deactivate the `F` option specified by the environment from the command-line, deactivating the "quit if one screen" behavior of -`less`. +`less`. One can specifically activate some flags for particular +commands: for example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables +line truncation only for `git blame`. + Likewise, when the `LV` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `-c`. You can override this setting by exporting `LV` with -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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