Can I scroll to new lines using mouse wheel inside git diff?

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 default terminal (it's GNOME I believe?)

The problem I'm facing is that when I use git diff command to inspect my local changes I can scroll up/down using the mouse wheel, but no new lines are showing up when I get to the bottom (so I can see only one page of changes). In order to go to the next lines I can use space or up/down arrows of the keyboard, but can I somehow make this with the mouse wheel?

BTW If I use the less command it works as expected -> scrolling down goes to new lines.

Answer 1

Thanks to @edwinksl's answer I managed to find a solution to the problem.

So by default git uses LESS as a pager and I believe the default arguments are FRSX.

On git 1.8+ you can remove options with less -+<option>, in my case I need to remove the X option so:

git config --global --replace-all core.pager 'less -+X'

but as @pcworld mention this can cause problems with diffs that fit on a single page, thus:

git config --global --replace-all core.pager 'less -+FX'

fixed the scrolling issue for me.

Answer 2

On Windows Terminal the answer didn't help me. Instead, I had to do the following:

git config --global --replace-all core.pager 'less --mouse'

Answer 3

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/2183920/486919, one way to do this and preserve the diff highlighting is to use git diff without a pager:

git --no-pager diff