Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> NOTE! To see this problem, you must use the LESS environment that git 
> provides by default (LESS=FRSX) and not have your own environment set that 
> overrides the git ones (or if you do, it must have -F set).
>
> Is it ugly? Yes. Does it work? Yes. Do we want to apply it? You decide.

I would not call it ugly.

I once consiered to fork another process in between the pager
and the caller here and make it buffer "the first screenful"
before actually spawning the pager, or write out the short
output itself without spawning, to fix the "no output but the
cursor goes to the end" problem.  THAT's ugly.

But I do not think your patch is ugly, and it would help normal
people who work in a windowed environment (I did not see the
need for it myself since I usually never resize the terminal --
even working inside X my terminals are usually fixed size and
are always running "screen").