Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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. -- 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