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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | git-sh-setup.sh | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pager.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm | 2 |
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1932e9b9a..9c4ceb3c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -558,14 +558,19 @@ core.pager:: configuration, then `$PAGER`, and then the default chosen at compile time (usually 'less'). + -When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRSX` +When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRX` (if `LESS` environment variable is set, Git does not change it at all). If you want to selectively override Git's default setting -for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -+S`. This will +for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -S`. This will be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final -command to `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. The environment tells the command -to set the `S` option to chop long lines but the command line -resets it to the default to fold long lines. +command to `LESS=FRX less -S`. The environment does not set the +`S` option but the command line does, instructing less to truncate +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`. 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 diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh index 5f28b32dc..944798033 100644 --- a/git-sh-setup.sh +++ b/git-sh-setup.sh @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ git_pager() { else GIT_PAGER=cat fi - : ${LESS=-FRSX} + : ${LESS=-FRX} : ${LV=-c} export LESS LV @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ void setup_pager(void) int i = 0; if (!getenv("LESS")) - env[i++] = "LESS=FRSX"; + env[i++] = "LESS=FRX"; if (!getenv("LV")) env[i++] = "LV=-c"; env[i] = NULL; diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm b/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm index 34f2869ab..664105357 100644 --- a/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm +++ b/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ sub run_pager { return; } open STDIN, '<&', $rfd or fatal "Can't redirect stdin: $!"; - $ENV{LESS} ||= 'FRSX'; + $ENV{LESS} ||= 'FRX'; $ENV{LV} ||= '-c'; exec $pager or fatal "Can't run pager: $! ($pager)"; } |