"Error: cannot run less: No such file or directory" in dev container

[vonjackets]

Description:
Git operations that use a pager (e.g., git log, git diff) fail with the following error when run inside the devcontainer.

error: cannot run less: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to execute pager 'less'

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Reproducing the issue
Run the devcontainer on your machine, access the shell within it via docker exec or through the code-server web ui.
docker run -it -v $pwd):/workspace -p 8080:8080 polar-dev:latest bash -c "/create-user.sh $(whoami) $(id -u) $(id -g)"/

Then, try to run git branch or any other git operation that requires a pager.

Possible Cause:
This error typically occurs when the less command-line utility, which Git uses as the default pager for displaying output, is not installed on the system or is not accessible in the system's PATH.

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Potential Solutions:
(Provide suggestions or troubleshooting steps here. Contributors can add more ideas as needed.)

• We could just Install less adding it to the flake definition.

• Change Git Pager Configuration to use bat
  For example:
  git config --global core.pager "bat"

We can probably avoid this entirely if we create a symlink from less to bat in the flake definition. If we haven't yet mounted a git config, this may be the time to do it with some other quality of life improvements.

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Feel free to suggest additional solutions in the comments.

[vonjackets]

Seems like we may just be able to get away with specifying the GIT_PAGER variable to = "cat" or whatever pager we wish.
git -c core.pager="cat" <CMD> seems to be fine as a workaround til the change is made.