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Subject: Re: Confusing language in man page
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Satyam Sharma, Sat, Jul 14, 2007 22:27:52 +0200:
> * On my system, doing:
> 
> $ git diff
> 
> with no outstanding changes in my current working tree produces some
> bogus newlines, throwing the prompt to the bottom of the xterm window.
> This sounds like weird / undesirable behaviour and I have a feeling must
> already be fixed in latest git (?)

It is not git. It is the program less which git uses. The problem is
known to the author of less.