git & less/vim

[Brian Ericson]

I'd gotten used to everything (except for, oddly enough, status) paging 
and use "git --no-pager" when I explicitly don't want it to page.

On 05/29/2009 12:49 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:47:08AM -0500, Brian Ericson wrote:
>    
>> Anyone know how to get git working properly with less and vim?
>> Specifically:
>>
>> * less does not "clear" (revert) the screen properly after commands like
>> "git log" and "git diff"
>> * vim isn't using the git extensions/file types for commands like "git
>> commit"
>>
>> Both of these work properly in Gentoo (and vim -- but not less -- works
>> properly in Ubuntu), but it's not obvious to me what's different between
>> the distros to account for the differing behavior...
>>      
>
> Funny, I would look at clearing the screen after a git log to be
> awful, since I frequently need the commit name for the following
> command.
>
> I found what I think is the appropriate info in 'man git-config' under
> the 'core.pager' setting.
>
>    
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