On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 1:35 PM Linus Torvalds
<torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Sadly, as of less-530, the behavior of "less -F" is broken enough that
> I think git needs to potentially think about changing the defaults for
> the pager, or people should at least be aware of it.
>
> Older versions of less (at least up to less-487 - March 2017) do not
> have this bug.  There were apparently 520, 527 and 529 releases in
> 2017 too, but I couldn't find their sources to verify if they were
> already broken - but 530 (February 2018) has the problem.

http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.527.html
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.520.html
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
Release notes for 520 and 527 contains:
 "Don't output terminal init sequence if using -F and file fits on one screen."

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