Re: git diff --name-status does not always list changed files

"Sebastian Schuberth" [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks, -FX works, though I do not understand why it did not with just
-F. From what I understood, -F just makes "less" quit immediately
(instead of waiting for the user to press "q") if the lines to display
fit completely on screen. In no case it should display nothing if
there actually is something to display.

My reading and understanding of less manual page, especially the
part that talks about -X suggests that everything is working as
it is meant to.

"git diff --name-status" displays something, less shows it, and
it quits immediately (because you asked it to with -F).  As part
of its quitting, it clears the screen because you did not ask
less not to do that by giving it an -X.

I am tempted to call it a bug in less, but I am a very nice
person and I would not actually do so ;-).  But it certainly
feels like a misfeature between less and terminfo to me.