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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] setup_pager: set MORE=R
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:00:29 -0800
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On 02/04/2014 14:48, Jeff King wrote:
> But this is not a build-time problem, but rather a run-time problem. We
> do not know what the environment of the user will be at run-time.

Ok, git can test the pager on the given system before its first use and 
remember the result in ~/.git for later use for example. Such 
'experimental' approach is maybe more reliable.

Yuri