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 - [Resetting A Reset](git/resetting-a-reset.md)
 - [Resolve A Merge Conflict From Stash Pop](git/resolve-a-merge-conflict-from-stash-pop.md)
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git/set-a-custom-pager-for-a-specific-command.md

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+# Set A Custom Pager For A Specific Command
+
+The pager can be [configured globally](configuring-the-pager.md), for [one run
+of a command](turn-off-the-output-pager-for-one-command.md), or as I'll explain
+in this post, for a specific command.
+
+_I explore all of this in [Optimize the way Git displays the output of
+commands](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpFldePcu_w)._
+
+Let's assume a git configuration that uses `less` for any command that need a
+pager. Perhaps you'd like for the `git show` to work a bit differently than
+other commands. You want it to use `less` with the `-F` and `-X` flags.
+
+A custom pager command can be set for any command in the `[pager]` section of
+the `~/.gitconfig` file.
+
+```
+[pager]
+  show = "less -FX"
+```
+
+If you want to turn off the pager for a specific command, set it to the boolean
+value `false` instead.
+
+```
+[pager]
+  show = false
+```
+
+See `man git-config` for more details in the `core.pager` and `pager.<cmd>`
+sections.