Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

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

From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:01:02
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

While I fully agree with the above conclusion, I just noticed that I
will be irritated enough to eventually set pager.blame myself, after
running a short "git blame -L1311,+7 git-p4.py", which is one of the
standard first steps for me to start reading patches submit on the
list.
Perhaps it deserves a mention in the doc, e.g. squashing this on top of
my patch:

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index b7f92ac..ebd1676 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -570,7 +570,9 @@ command to `LESS=FRX less -S`. The environment does not set the
 long lines. Similarly, setting `core.pager` to `less -+F` will
 deactivate the `F` option specified by the environment from the
 command-line, deactivating the "quit if one screen" behavior of
-`less`.
+`less`.  One can specifically activate some flags for particular
+commands: for example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables
+line truncation only for `git blame`.
 +
 Likewise, when the `LV` environment variable is unset, Git sets it
 to `-c`.  You can override this setting by exporting `LV` with

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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