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Subject: Re: prune/prune-packed
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:26:13 -0700
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J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>> I am considering the following to address irritation some people
>> (including me, actually) are experiencing with this change when
>> viewing a small (or no) diff.  Any objections?
> 
> So for me, if I run
> 
> 	less -FRS file
> 
> where "file" is less than a page, I see nothing happen whatsoever.
> 
> At a guess, maybe it's clearing the screen, displaying the file, the
> restoring, all before I see anything happen?

Junio,

How about reverting this change? From the reports here, is causing 
problems on a number of different distributions.

These settings are probably something that is better set by the user in 
an environment variable. Or, make the default something that does work 
everywhere and have a config item for those that wish to customize their UI.