Issue accessing Git log

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Issue accessing Git log

Closed this issue 12 years ago · 4 comments

rtani1123 commented 12 years ago

use of git log results in the following error:

There is no -F flag ("less -?" for help)

Answer 1 · 2012-11-07T23:16:32.000Z

@ad510, I recall you mentioned a solution for this. Can you chime in?

Answer 2 · 2012-11-07T23:35:11.000Z

Git passes some flags to less that the version on aludra doesn't understand. I couldn't figure out how to stop Git from passing that flag (it seems to have some config settings to do that but I couldn't figure out how to use them), so I set the pager to more instead.

git config --global core.pager more

If you prefer to use less, you can pipe the output to less manually:

git log | less

I only have this problem on aludra and not on other computers.

Answer 3 · 2012-11-07T23:38:01.000Z

@rtani1123 Can you confirm that using:

git config --global core.pager more

fixes the problem. Close the issue if it is.

Answer 4 · 2012-11-08T15:46:44.000Z

Verified to work by another student, 0.25 EC for @usc-csci200-fall2012/team11