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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-11-04 08:00:37 -0500
committerLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-11-04 08:00:38 -0500
commit0d2605112e25bb614d65771a04356639ab370dc3 (patch)
treebdfb13e4712ba2eea44028b419cbd820dc54061e /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'km/maint-doc-git-reset' (diff)
parentDocumentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager (diff)
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Merge branch 'pp/maint-doc-pager-config'
* pp/maint-doc-pager-config: Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 11f320b962..9a0544cf1f 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