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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pager: default to LESS=FRX not LESS=FRSX
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:36:17 -0400
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> writes:
> 
> > Remove unnecessary '-S' option that enabled less to chop long lines.
> > It used to provide some confusion at least for the 'git diff':
> > "Where are my long lines? Are they missed from the patch?".
> 
> It is not "unnecessary", but only "what _you_ are not used to".
> As this breaks expectentions of people already familiar with
> what git does by default, I cannot take this patch.

Hear hear.  I completely agree with Junio.  I (and a number of
other users that I work with) expect this behevaior by default.

-- 
Shawn.