Re: [PATCH] git-status: colorize status output

From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Aug 5, 2006, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20060805203107.GB16186@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20060805195411.GA4733@sigio.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:18:21PM +0200, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> 
> > I like the colored git status.  Here is a patch to honor isatty(1) and
> > pager_in_use (exporting GIT_PAGER_IN_USE) with pager.color.
> 
> Doesn't this have different behavior when you use 'git-status' rather
> than 'git status'? Maybe rather than a boolean, we would be better off
> with a true/false/auto value similar to diff.color.

I don't see the case where git-status and git status behave differently (except for git -p status but git-status does not have an option for paging at all).