On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 15:23 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I think that was the reason we added it back in 2005. In any case,
> asking "why" is not a useful use of anybody's time, because it is
> very unlikely to change in the official version we ship, and because
> it is so easy for any individual who does not like it to drop by
> exporting the $LESS environment variable.
Well the other commit I've mentioned kinda read as if it was thought
that either X or both F and X were needed for the effect to exit less
immediately if the output is too short ("F and X because
> sometimes the output Git pipes to less is short").
So I thought maybe that was intended, and the no-clear was just a side-
effect no one ever really thought about.
Anyway, thanks,
Chris.
