Can I scroll to new lines using mouse wheel inside git diff?

Thanks to @edwinksl's answer I managed to find a solution to the problem.

So by default git uses LESS as a pager and I believe the default arguments are FRSX.

On git 1.8+ you can remove options with less -+<option>, in my case I need to remove the X option so:

git config --global --replace-all core.pager 'less -+X'

but as @pcworld mention this can cause problems with diffs that fit on a single page, thus:

git config --global --replace-all core.pager 'less -+FX'

fixed the scrolling issue for me.

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/2183920/486919, one way to do this and preserve the diff highlighting is to use git diff without a pager:

git --no-pager diff

On Windows Terminal the answer didn't help me. Instead, I had to do the following:

git config --global --replace-all core.pager 'less --mouse'

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