packaging vs default pager

[Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>]

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Hi All,

I'd like to see what people think about providing a configure/Makefile
knob for overriding the default pager at build time.  Currently,
things use 'less' as the fallback and rely on the path to find
it.

On (old) solaris systems, /usr/bin/less (typically the first less
found) doesn't understand the default arguments (FXRS), which forces
users to alter their environment (PATH, GIT_PAGER, LESS, etc) or have
a local or global gitconfig before paging works as expected.

Would it be completely out of line to provide a knob so that the
fallback $pager could be set to something more specific/appropriate
during the build?  [I'll do the work but not if it's an undesirable
addition.]

Alternately, are packagers recommended to simply ship a global
gitconfig that sets core.pager?

Thanks
-Ben
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