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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:20:06 -0700
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> 
>>debian:~# cd linux-2.6/
>>debian:~/linux-2.6# git log
>>/usr/local/bin/git-log-script: line 4: less: command not found
> 
> 
> A very strange Linux installation that doesn't come with "less"...
> 
> What a strange box. Anyway, that does point out that maybe the git RPM 
> spec should have "less" as a dependency. 
> 

Generally you want to honour $PAGER if it is defined.

	-hpa