Re: [PATCH v2] pager: remove 'S' from $LESS by default

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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I still find the output from "git blame" disturbing, though.  The
first thing I do in "git blame" output is to scroll to the right in
order to identify the the area I am interested in, and this first
step is not negatively affected, because the right scrolled output 
automatically wraps long lines.

But my second step is to scroll back to the left edge to find the
commit object name and at that point, the new default output without
"S" gets somewhat annoying, because most of the output lines from
"git blame" are longer than my window width.

git blame sucks in anything but fullscreen either way.  It would help to
display _only_ the source code and have the other info as mouse-over,
but that's not something a pager can do.

Exactly. I personally never use "git blame" outside "git gui blame" for
this reason.

It's possible for a user to set pager.blame to "less -S" to get back to
the previous behavior only for blame.

The idea of having a separate default value for pager.blame (or set
$LESS differently for blame) crossed my mind, but I actually don't like
it, as it would make it harder for a user to fine-tune his configuration
manually (one would have to cancel all the corner-cases that Git would
set by default).

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Matthieu Moy
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