Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

Bill Lear [off-list ref] schrieb:

On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 20:12:36 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:

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Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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I can't seem to get this to work, no matter what I do, using the latest 
1.5.0-rc2 code.  I have the environment variables LESS, PAGER, 
PAGER_FLAGS, and I can't seem to get 'git diff' to not plough through my 
screen each time it is run, no matter the combinations...  Could someone 
post the magic?

Try this:

PAGER=less LESS=-FRS git diff

Replied to Johannes off-line and thought this was working --- sorry
for the false positive.  It is in one regard: it completely suppresses
output if there is less than a full screen of output.

If I do this:

% export PAGER=less
% unset LESS
% git diff

I get 30 lines of output in my current repository, as I should.

If I then do this:

% LESS=-FRS git diff

I get nothing --- I do see a brief blink of output, but it's as if
less swallows it whole and I see nothing but the next prompt.

This is propably caused by activating "Enable Alternate Screen Switching"
in xterm. If you have this feature enabled, you get a clean screen (no
fragments of the displayed file are shown after quitting less). Try to
disable it and see if it works.

-Peter