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I'm taking the dive into setting up and learning git and at the same time learning bash. I'm trying to do something simple as view the help section of
$ git config
unfortunately, when I type that the output of the help goes off the screen. Doing some googling I found less to be the program I want to use to scroll.
I tried
$ git config | less
with no success. Any ideas? Thanks!
The solution is to set the variable LESS. Git defaults to less FRSX.
export LESS=R
Alternatively, you can modify the variable LESS when pager is called:
git config --global core.pager 'less -+$LESS -R'
See the core.pager section in man git-config
Have you tried disabling hardware video acceleration in VLC? This might fix the half-screen problem.
Yes I realize this isn't the question asked, but it seems to be an XY Problem.
Best Answer
Git is probably writing its output into standard error stream instead of standard output stream because command parameters are not correct. Please read about Unix standard streams here.
To fix the problem you have to redirect the error stream into output stream like this:
git config 2>&1 | less