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git version 2.45.0.windows.1 Windows 10 Enterprise

I have recently experienced a weird behaviour with my git installation. Suddenly i got git not recognised as external or internal command when keying it in on the cmd command prompt.

I checked that it's actually installed under program and files, and so i added it to the system path environment variables.

It now recognises the git command but I can't access its content, branches, log, git config --global --list etc. When issuing this commands I get

there is no -F option ("less --help" for help)>

Any idea what this may be?

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  • What precisely do you type? Does Git work if you call it with the full path? In any case, the output suggests that Git invokes less as a pager but doesn't do that correctly. Commented Jun 17, 2024 at 9:07
  • In git-bash open the 2 files /etc/gitconfig and ~/.gitconfig with notepad /etc/gitconfig and notepad ~/.gitconfig. Search for less and check if any option (like core.pager) is set to less. Commented Jun 17, 2024 at 9:13
  • I'm guessing you have an environment variable LESS with options which are not compatible with less. Commented Jun 17, 2024 at 12:17
  • no explicit mention in the config about the pager. Nevertheless doing the command using --no-pager managed to display the expected outcome. I have done git config --global core.pager "" and now i get expected outcomes consistently. I neverthless get <error: cannot spawn --list: No such file or directory< Commented Jun 17, 2024 at 15:22
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