Re: git diff --name-status does not always list changed files

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Sebastian Schuberth" <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, -FX works, though I do not understand why it did not with just
> -F. From what I understood, -F just makes "less" quit immediately
> (instead of waiting for the user to press "q") if the lines to display
> fit completely on screen. In no case it should display nothing if
> there actually is something to display.

My reading and understanding of less manual page, especially the
part that talks about -X suggests that everything is working as
it is meant to.

"git diff --name-status" displays something, less shows it, and
it quits immediately (because you asked it to with -F).  As part
of its quitting, it clears the screen because you did not ask
less not to do that by giving it an -X.

I am tempted to call it a bug in less, but I am a very nice
person and I would not actually do so ;-).  But it certainly
feels like a misfeature between less and terminfo to me.