Anders Melchiorsen <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Passing options to "less" with the LESS environment variable can > interfere with existing environment variables. There are at least two > problems, as the following examples show: > > 1. Alice is using git with colors. Now she decides to set LESS=i for > some reason. Suddenly, she sees codes in place of colors because LESS > is no longer set automatically. > > 2. Bob sets GIT_PAGER="less -RS", but does not set LESS. Git sets > LESS=FRSX before calling $GIT_PAGER. Now Bob wonders why his pager is > not always paging, when he explicitly tried to clear the F option. 3. Christ has been happily using git with his PAGER set to "less". He suddenly notices that output from git linewraps and the pager does not exit when showing a short output, and gets very unhappy. -- 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
