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When I use the "git log" command to see the log, it open the log file with "less", which I think is quite inconvenient because you have to enter "Q" to quit the log and its content would disappear from terminal, unlike the output of "cat" command. Is there a way to change the "less" from other command line tools?

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The disappearing screen is a separable issue: see my answer to How to display output of `git branch` on-screen in same CLI terminal? Nonetheless, you can replace the pager with any other pager you like, by setting GIT_PAGER in your environment, or core.pager in your Git configuration, or log.pager in your Git configuration.

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  • Thanks. Putting "[core] pager = less -FRX" in the .gitconfig file solves my problem perfectly. – xjtan Feb 26 '19 at 06:08