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diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index 4587fbbdb5..5f280ab527 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
#include "cache.h"
+#include <sys/select.h>
+
/*
* This is split up from the rest of git so that we might do
* something different on Windows, for example.
@@ -7,6 +9,16 @@
static void run_pager(const char *pager)
{
+ /*
+ * Work around bug in "less" by not starting it until we
+ * have real input
+ */
+ fd_set in;
+
+ FD_ZERO(&in);
+ FD_SET(0, &in);
+ select(1, &in, NULL, &in, NULL);
+
execlp(pager, pager, NULL);
execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", pager, NULL);
}