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Tue, 6 Oct 2026 12:01:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: "brian m. carlson" Cc: Todd Zullinger , git@vger.kernel.org, Francisco Boni Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add more examples of overriding LESS in core.pager In-Reply-To: (brian m. carlson's message of "Mon, 5 Oct 2026 23:59:39 +0000") References: <20260919163725.TExDduTp@teonanacatl.net> <20261002234203.4064847-1-tmz@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:01:19 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "brian m. carlson" writes: > On 2026-10-02 at 23:41:52, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> +Another way to deactivate an option is prefixing `core.pager` with >> +`LESS="RX"` to remove `-F` or `LESS=""` to override all options. >> +This is useful if the `core.pager` command eventually runs `less` or >> +a command which respects the `LESS` environment variable but lacks >> +command line options to override `LESS` options. >> ++ >> +One can specifically activate some flags for particular commands: for >> +example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables line truncation >> +only for `git blame`. > > Sure, this seems like an improvement. I'm not very particular on the > wording, but it's good that folks have the information that they need. Thanks, both, for writing and reviewing. Let me mark the topic for 'next'.