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From: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:12:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351455166-2579-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx> (raw)

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>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 11f320b..9a0544c 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
-- 
1.7.10.4

             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-28 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-28 20:12 Patrick Palka [this message]
2012-10-29  6:26 ` [PATCH] Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager Jeff King

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