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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git diff shows no output
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:38:56 -0500
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Hi!

Charles Brossollet wrote:

> "git diff" shows nothing, while "git diff | cat" shows the diff, as
> well as "git diff>output.txt" puts diff in output.txt.

"git diff" paginates its output by default.  Perhaps your $LESS
contains -F but not -X?

Hope that helps,
Jonathan