Documentation: clarify pager configuration

The unwary user may not know how to disable the -FRSX options. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jonathan Nieder committed Aug 24, 2008 at 00:28 UTC ab54cd6c4d54b7d9bf6dccfa7ea54f209ea76601

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Documentation/config.txt

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@@ -358,8 +358,13 @@ core.editor::

358 `EDITOR` environment variables and then finally `vi`.

359

360 core.pager::

361 - The command that git will use to paginate output. Can be overridden

362 - with the `GIT_PAGER` environment variable.

361 + The command that git will use to paginate output. Can

362 + be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment

363 + variable. Note that git sets the `LESS` environment

364 + variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the

365 + pager. One can change these settings by setting the

366 + `LESS` variable to some other value or by giving the

367 + `core.pager` option a value such as "`less -+FRSX`".

368

369 core.whitespace::

370 A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to

Documentation/git.txt

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@@ -497,7 +497,8 @@ other

497 'GIT_PAGER'::

498 This environment variable overrides `$PAGER`. If it is set

499 to an empty string or to the value "cat", git will not launch

500 - a pager.

500 + a pager. See also the `core.pager` option in

501 + linkgit:git-config[1].

502

503 'GIT_SSH'::

504 If this environment variable is set then 'git-fetch'