On Saturday 2008-06-21 23:45, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Saturday 2008-06-21 23:42, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Since git 1.5.6, `git status` always invokes a pager, which is really >>>> annoying when the output is less than the number of terminal rows >>>> available. Can I turn that off somehow or do I need to send a reverting >>>> patch? >>> >>> I think it would work to set PAGER="less -F" (a.k.a. --quit-if-one-screen)? >> >>Probably better with LESS=FRSX, which is what git uses as a sane default >>if nothing is set. >> >I went with Vegard's suggestion to change the pager command in >~/.gitconfig, since I have the $LESS environment variable already >defined as "-MSi", and I do not want to change that; because if I am >going to run less (often at the end of a pipe), I certainly do not >want it to just quit on me. So -F in $LESS is a no-no. > >Since I need "-MRSi" for git anyhow, tweaking ~/.gitconfig was easy. > I've played with `less -F` for a while now, and there is an inherent problem with that. Or should I say, xterm. When less quits, the xterm "screen" blits back to the shell output that was previously visible, so git status with less -F as a pager displays practically *nothing*. I am aware that this is a less / xterm issue, but I wanted to let you know. -- 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
