Frequently, git somecommand --help will call the man command to display help pages. I think that when it does so, it should pass the value of the GIT_PAGER variable copied into the PAGER variable: the paging happens on behalf of git here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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