Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 22:09:24 (+0100) Peter Baumann writes:

Bill Lear [off-list ref] schrieb:

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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.

Tried as instructed: I get output when I should get output.  However,
when I should get no output, it clears/scrolls all the way down to the
bottom of the screen (LESS=-FRS git diff).


Bill