How to configure case insensitive git output
Git commands like diff use the less binary for their output representation.
I often find myself searching for strings like todo, then switching to the case-insensitive mode (-i) and re-doing my search.
Today I figured out that you can configure git to show case insensitive diffs every time:
git config --global core.pager 'less -i'
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