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From: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Confusing language in man page
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:55:42 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a781481a0707151425q11e35280rd0118ac9e122c55d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070715094038.GE2568@steel.home>

On 7/15/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Satyam Sharma, Sat, Jul 14, 2007 22:27:52 +0200:

Ok, the first two were silly questions I got answered as I got to
know more about git automatically :-)

> > * 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.

As for this one, I sent out a mail to bug-less@ just in case -- it's a weird
and annoying thing.

Thanks!

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-15 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-14 18:08 Confusing language in man page Satyam Sharma
2007-07-14 20:27 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-15  9:40   ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-15 21:25     ` Satyam Sharma [this message]

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