Pijul diff displays nothing and pijul diff --short yes

Question
1

I add new file:

echo "nova prova" > prova3.md

and pijul diff displays nothing meanwhile pijul diff --short displays:

$ pijul diff --short
U .ignore
U prova1.md
U prova3.md

It seems a bit paradoxical, as user point of view.

2

It does and doesn’t seem to follow the help, which says

Shows difference between two channels/changes

USAGE:
    pijul diff [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [PREFIXES]...

ARGS:
    <PREFIXES>...    Only diff those paths (files or directories). If missing, diff the entire
                     repository

FLAGS:
    -h, --help         Print help information
        --json         Output the diff in JSON format instead of the default change text format
        --short        Show a short version of the diff
        --tag          Add all the changes of this channel as dependencies (except changes implied
                       transitively), instead of the minimal dependencies
        --untracked    Include the untracked files
    -V, --version      Print version information

OPTIONS:
        --channel <CHANNEL>         Compare with this channel
        --repository <REPO_PATH>    Set the repository where this command should run. Defaults to
                                    the first ancestor of the current directory that contains a
                                    `.pijul` directory

So there is nothing in the default channel, so nothing to diff.
At the same time, there is a flag for showing untracked files.

3

Sounds like a bug. Are you on OSX?

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4

@pmeunier
I’m in GNU/Linux, specifically Artixlinux, a derivative of Arch. I use this package

5

This looks a lot like a less-related bug. What’s the output of less --version?

6

@pmeunier

$ less --version
less 590 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
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For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
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