From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:37:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't use colors when stdout is not a tty.
Message-ID: <20070706163759.GA26670@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <468E612E.2070903@objectxp.com>

Michel Marti <mma@objectxp.com> wrote:
> Currently, with diff-coloring enabled, git-diff outputs color escape
> sequences even if stdout is redirected (not a tty). This is rather annoying
> when trying to further process the output. This patch teaches the diff command
> to only do its coloring stuff when a pager is in use or stdout is a tty.

Set color.diff to auto instead of true.