Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager
You can override an option set in the LESS variable by simply prefixing the command line option with `-+`. This is more robust than the previous example if the default LESS options are to ever change. Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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@@ -538,14 +538,14 @@ core.pager::
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`LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately,
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these settings can be overridden on a project or
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global basis by setting the `core.pager` option.
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- Setting `core.pager` has no affect on the `LESS`
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+ Setting `core.pager` has no effect on the `LESS`
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environment variable behaviour above, so if you want
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to override git's default settings this way, you need
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to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option
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in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager`
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- to `less -+$LESS -FRX`. This will be passed to the
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- shell by git, which will translate the final command to
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- `LESS=FRSX less -+FRSX -FRX`.
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+ to `less -+S`. This will be passed to the shell by
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+ git, which will translate the final command to
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+ `LESS=FRSX less -+S`.
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core.whitespace::
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A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to