Rolf Eike Beer <eb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The given repository is a clone of the vanilla kernel. > > /usr/bin/git --git-dir=/home/ebeer/repos/upstream/linux/.git ls-remote origin 2>&1 | less > > And I then see things like this: > > 6f38b5d6cfd43dde3058a10c68baae9cf17af912 refs/tags/v5.0-rc2 > 1c7fc5cbc33980acd13ae83d0b416db002fe95601e7f97f64b59514d936 refs/tags/v5.7-rc2^{} > d0709bb6da2ab6d49b11643e98abdf79b1a2817f refs/tags/v5.7-rc3 Not offering any solution, just an observation of the problem and annotating the report. What we see on the second line is the beginning of peeled v5.0-rc2^{} up to the "acd13" (that is, the first 19 bytes of the line), followed by the full line for peeled v5.7-rc2^{} (which begins with "ae83d"). 12407 bytes in between are missing, which is even more puzzling as it is not a nice round number. I wonder if this is "less" misconfigured and misbehaving. Did the user after seeing v5.7-* tags scroll back with 'b' or something? If the output (including the 2>&1 redirection) is sent to a file and then "cat <that-file" is invoked, does the same thing happen? How about "cat <that-file | less"?