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From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why does git set X in LESS env var?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:26:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c10c4b95f2a947a5d569a2c3d51fcb02b35e81d.camel@scientia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa5sokdd3.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 15:23 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I think that was the reason we added it back in 2005.  In any case,
> asking "why" is not a useful use of anybody's time, because it is
> very unlikely to change in the official version we ship, and because
> it is so easy for any individual who does not like it to drop by
> exporting the $LESS environment variable.


Well the other commit I've mentioned kinda read as if it was thought
that either X or both F and X were needed for the effect to exit less
immediately if the output is too short ("F and X because
> sometimes the output Git pipes to less is short").

So I thought maybe that was intended, and the no-clear was just a side-
effect no one ever really thought about.


Anyway, thanks,
Chris.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-11 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-11 22:19 why does git set X in LESS env var? Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-11 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-11 22:26   ` Christoph Anton Mitterer [this message]
2023-10-11 22:51     ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-11 23:16       ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-11 23:29         ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-11 23:43           ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-12  0:06             ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12  0:22               ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-12  0:31                 ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12  1:39                   ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-12  5:46                     ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12 20:23                       ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-12 21:15                         ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12 21:48                           ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-12 22:36                             ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12 23:06                               ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-13  4:43                                 ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-13 13:45                                   ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-13 15:00                                     ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12  0:04   ` Jeff King
2023-10-12  0:16     ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12  1:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-12  5:30       ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12 16:19         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-13 20:12           ` Dragan Simic
     [not found]             ` <cfbe174f-23ac-4a35-8db4-66bdfdfdc14e@gmail.com>
2023-11-02  6:01               ` Thomas Guyot
2023-11-02  6:14                 ` Dragan Simic
2023-11-02  6:48               ` Dragan Simic
2023-11-02 13:19                 ` Thomas Guyot
2023-11-02 14:19                   ` Dragan Simic
2023-11-03 11:47                     ` Thomas Guyot
2023-11-03 15:28                       ` Andy Koppe
2023-11-03 18:38                         ` Dragan Simic
2023-11-03 18:22                       ` Dragan Simic
2023-11-06  3:47                     ` Dragan Simic
2024-03-21 15:53                       ` Dragan Simic
2023-10-12  3:54     ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2023-10-12  5:57       ` Dragan Simic

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