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diff --git a/pep-git.txt b/pep-git.txt
index 985f78a..1c78dd4 100644
--- a/pep-git.txt
+++ b/pep-git.txt
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ Default remote repository for fetching/pulling is ``origin``. Default
 set of references to fetch is calculated using matching algorithm: git
 fetches all branches having the same name on both ends.
 
+
 Push
 ''''
 
@@ -341,6 +342,7 @@ That changed in git 2.3, but see `the blog post
 for caveats; in 2.4 the push-to-deploy feature was `further improved
 <https://github.com/blog/1994-git-2-4-atomic-pushes-push-to-deploy-and-more#push-to-deploy-improvements>`_.
 
+
 Tags
 ''''
 
@@ -782,9 +784,16 @@ but you can use your editor::
 
     $ git grep -Ovim # but not -O vim
 
-BTW, there is a difference between running ``git grep -O`` and ``git
-grep -Oless`` - in the latter case ``git grep`` passes ``+/pattern``
-option to ``less``.
+BTW, if git is instructed to use ``less`` as the pager (i.e., if pager
+is not configured in git at all it uses ``less`` by default, or if it
+gets ``less`` from GIT_PAGER or PAGER environment variables, or if it
+was configured with ``git config --global core.pager less``, or
+``less`` is used in the command ``git grep -Oless``) ``git grep``
+passes ``+/$pattern`` option to ``less`` which is quite convenient.
+Unfortunately, ``git grep`` doesn't pass the pattern if the pager is
+not exactly ``less``, even if it's ``less`` with parameters (something
+like ``git config --global core.pager less -FRSXgimq``); fortunately,
+``git grep -Oless`` always passes the pattern.
 
 
 bash/zsh completion
@@ -833,8 +842,8 @@ repositories can be made user- or group-writeable (see parameter
 ``core.sharedRepository`` in ``git help config``). If that's too
 permissive or too restrictive for some project's needs there is a
 wrapper `gitolite <http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html>`_ that can
-be configured to allow access with great granularity; gitolite has a
-lot of documentation.
+be configured to allow access with great granularity; gitolite is
+written in Perl and has a lot of documentation.
 
 Web interface to browse repositories can be created using `gitweb
 <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/gitweb>`_ and `cgit