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| author |  Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> | 2012-10-28 16:12:46 -0400 |
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| committer |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2012-10-29 02:27:13 -0400 |
| commit | 3a599b832b27eca70bb2956a5a127fc35e0cb233 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b85b65622692575bb4d72308ced0188cb41fa89 | |
| parent | Git 1.7.12.4 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-3a599b832b27eca70bb2956a5a127fc35e0cb233.tar.xz | |
Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager
You can override an option set in the LESS variable by simply prefixing
the command line option with `-+`. This is more robust than the previous
example if the default LESS options are to ever change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 122e3c4996..789abe75de 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -538,14 +538,14 @@ core.pager:: `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately, these settings can be overridden on a project or global basis by setting the `core.pager` option. - Setting `core.pager` has no affect on the `LESS` + Setting `core.pager` has no effect on the `LESS` environment variable behaviour above, so if you want to override git's default settings this way, you need to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager` - to `less -+$LESS -FRX`. This will be passed to the - shell by git, which will translate the final command to - `LESS=FRSX less -+FRSX -FRX`. + to `less -+S`. This will be passed to the shell by + git, which will translate the final command to + `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. core.whitespace:: A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to |