pager: remove 'S' from $LESS by default

By default, Git used to set $LESS to -FRSX if $LESS was not set by
the user. The FRX flags actually make sense for Git (F and X because
sometimes the output Git pipes to less is short, and R because Git
pipes colored output). The S flag (chop long lines), on the other
hand, is not related to Git and is a matter of user preference. Git
should not decide for the user to change LESS's default.

More specifically, the S flag harms users who review untrusted code
within a pager, since a patch looking like:

    -old code;
    +new good code; [... lots of tabs ...] malicious code;

would appear identical to:

    -old code;
    +new good code;

Users who prefer the old behavior can still set the $LESS environment
variable to -FRSX explicitly, or set core.pager to 'less -S'.

The documentation in config.txt is made a bit longer to keep both an
example setting the 'S' flag (needed to recover the old behavior)
and an example showing how to unset a flag set by Git.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm b/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm
index 34f2869ab5..664105357c 100644
--- a/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm
+++ b/perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ sub run_pager {
 		return;
 	}
 	open STDIN, '<&', $rfd or fatal "Can't redirect stdin: $!";
-	$ENV{LESS} ||= 'FRSX';
+	$ENV{LESS} ||= 'FRX';
 	$ENV{LV} ||= '-c';
 	exec $pager or fatal "Can't run pager: $! ($pager)";
 }