diff not opened in separate view & mouse scrolling not working with git v2.41.0.windows.2 in standard git bash console

[David Krammer]

After upgrading git to v2.41.0.windows.2, the diff does not open in a separate view in the standard git bash console anymore that you can quit with 'q' and scrolling with the mouse wheel doesn't also work anymore (only with the arrow keys). I came from v.2.39.0.windows.2.

Interestingly, in the normal windows cmd, the separate view is opened, however, the scrolling also doesn't work (but I can't tell if that worked before)

I checked the active git config and my setting core.pager=git-split-diffs --color | less -+LFX is still there, so scrolling should still be activated.

It looks like this now when I execute a git diff:

[Shrey Banga]

I think unfortunately this is likely to be an issue with less, not git-split-diffs. Essentially, git-split-diffs just spits out the entire colorized diff and less (which is shipped with your OS) handles the scrolling and navigation. I suspect that the terminal emulator you're using (is it git bash?) behaves differently from linux. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/469360/less-performs-differently-when-invoked-from-bash-and-from-git is one example complaining about this. You can try changing the arguments passed to it in git config and seeing if that takes effect. Btw, you seem to have less -+RFX, whereas I use less -RFX, not sure if that makes a difference.

[David Krammer]

Thanks for looking into it. The issue seems to have been fixed with git v2.42.0 :)

Regarding the less -+RFX: Your documentation in the README says to use the + in order to enable scrolling (altought I just noticed the documentation describes -+LFX, but I assume the L is not the significant part there?)