Top Notch Git Pager

[ebouchut]

git config --global core.pager 'less -FRSX'

Set it once and to update your personal global git configuration. It will apply to all of your git repositories in this machine.

I find this pager configuration useful in several ways.
The -X option does not clear the screen when you quit the pager and provides an interesting side effect.
It keeps the command output (log) in the screen history.
Say you run git log this opens up the output of the command in the pager.
Once you quit the pager, the screen is not blanked, and you can scroll back to see the log output.

Without the -X option, the log output is not part of the scroll back history.

It is a matter of personal preference, but I find it useful to be able to scroll back and see the output of previous git log command. This also works for whatever git command that generates an output longer than one page.