{"thread":{"id":"55991","subject":"Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background","startedAt":"2021-06-23T07:48:31Z","lastAt":"2021-06-23T09:53:45Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Mirco Babin | Trip Software","Thomas Braun"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"428258","messageId":"emb173d90c-68d0-44ac-9d8d-faf6aaa85444@mirconb","threadId":"55991","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background","fromName":"Mirco Babin | Trip Software","fromEmail":"mirco@tripsoftware.nl","sentAt":"2021-06-23T07:48:21Z","receivedAt":"2021-06-23T07:48:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mirco@tripsoftware.nl","avatar":null},"body":"Dear Git community,\n\ngit version 2.31.1.windows.1\n\nWhenever I use GIT STATUS in a Windows cmd.exe dosbox the output is \nunreadable. Because of the usage of RED textcolor on a BLACK background.\n\nSee attached screenshot.png\n\nKind regards,\nMirco Babin\n"},{"id":"428268","messageId":"c74e78f7-a6d3-1c56-a3bd-f7981a672437@virtuell-zuhause.de","threadId":"55991","inReplyTo":"emb173d90c-68d0-44ac-9d8d-faf6aaa85444@mirconb","subject":"Re: Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background","fromName":"Thomas Braun","fromEmail":"thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de","sentAt":"2021-06-23T09:53:41Z","receivedAt":"2021-06-23T09:53:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1185677?v=4"},"body":"On 23.06.2021 09:48, Mirco Babin | Trip Software wrote:\n\nHi Mirco,\n\n> Whenever I use GIT STATUS in a Windows cmd.exe dosbox the output is\n> unreadable. Because of the usage of RED textcolor on a BLACK background.\n\nyou can tweak the global default for having colors on/off via the\nsetting color.ui.\n\nSo for example doing\n\ngit config --global color.ui off\n\nwill turn colors globally off.\n\nYou can also tweak which colors are used, see color.status.<slot>. All\nthe git config options can be seen with git help config.\n\nI've checked here and here the red is quite a bit brighter compared to\nyour screenshot, so I would not claim it is unreadable but that is of\ncourse heavily subjective.\n"}]}