Re: "git branch" issue in 2.16.1

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> On 08 Feb 2018, at 17:19, Kevin Daudt <me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 12:27:07PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08 Feb 2018, at 12:13, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 08 Feb 2018, at 09:50, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:20:08PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> 1. You have $LESS in your environment (without "F") on one platform
>>>>>>  but not the other.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think that's it. On my system LESS is defined to "-R".
>>>>> 
>>>>> This opens the pager:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	$ echo "TEST" | less
>>>>> 
>>>>> This does not open the pager:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	$ echo "TEST" | less -FRX
>>>>> 
>>>>> That means "F" works on macOS but Git doesn't set it because LESS is
>>>>> already in my environment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Question is, why is LESS set that way on my system? I can't find
>>>>> it in .bashrc .bash_profile .zshrc and friends.
>>>> 
>>>> There's also /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile, etc. I don't know what's
>>>> normal in the mac world. You can try running:
>>>> 
>>>> bash -ix 2>&1 </dev/null | grep LESS
>>>> 
>>>> to see what your startup code is doing. I don't know of a good way to
>>>> correlate that with the source files, though. Or even to ask bash which
>>>> startup files it's looking in.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, this command doesn't work for me.
>>> 
>>> I ask around and most of my coworkers have LESS="-R".
>>> Only the coworker that doesn't really use his Mac and has
>>> no customizations does not have $LESS defined.
>>> 
>>> Therefore, I think it is likely some third party component
>>> that sets $LESS.
>>> 
>>> @Jason:
>>> Do you have homebrew, iTerm2, and/or oh-my-zsh installed?
>> 
>> Ha. I found it it! It is indeed oh-my-zsh:
>> https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/lib/misc.zsh#L23
>> 
>> Let's see if oh-my-zsh is willing to change that...
>> 
>> - Lars
> 
> I've just added unset LESS in my .zshrc, but for most users it would be
> better if they don't set it at all.

I proposed this instead:
https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/pull/6611

Maybe you can chime in there?

Thanks,
Lars





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