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From: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup•kalibalik.dk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:21:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763pshw10.fsf@cup.kalibalik.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzdc14k5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat\, 23 Aug 2008 02\:08\:58 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> That's not a solution. Alice and Bob can also change their
> environment to their taste as well. Why punish existing users?

As I said, when you ask for "less", I tend to think it is correct to
get "less". Not "LESS=FSRX less", with a special case if LESS is
already defined.

> If the problem you are trying to solve is that there is no existing
> combination of the environment variables for them to do so, you can
> solve it by introducing a new configuration or environment to
> support such usage and documenting it, can't you?

I was trying to clean up things, not to make them even more confusing.
If backwards compatibility is more important to you, I can understand.


Cheers,
Anders.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-23 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22 12:25 [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS Anders Melchiorsen
2008-08-23  5:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-23  8:28   ` Anders Melchiorsen
2008-08-23  9:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-23 10:21       ` Anders Melchiorsen [this message]
2008-08-24  5:28     ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-24  5:38       ` [PATCH] Documentation: clarify pager.<cmd> configuration Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-24 18:59       ` [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS Junio C Hamano

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