I've long been annoyed by how git branch
uses less
(or, more correctly, whatever you have configured as a "pager" for your terminal) to show the list of branches.
Apparently this was a change in default behavior introduced in Git 2.16.0:
* git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a recent change to "git tag --list".
But StackOverflow comes to the rescue again!
git config --global pager.branch false
This also goes for tags:
git config --global pager.tag false