From: Michele Ballabio Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:49:51 GMT Subject: Re: [bug] gitk can not read history if diff color is enabled Message-ID: <200710131649.51496.barra_cuda@katamail.com> In-Reply-To: <4710D3AA.8000502@softhome.net> On Saturday 13 October 2007, Mike Sharov wrote: > Reproduced in git version 1.5.3.4.217.gbfc1, although it's been this way > for a while. To see the bug, enable color diff with > > [diff] > color > > and launch gitk on any repository (like the Linux kernel tree). The > result is a dialog box "Can't parse git log output '\x1b[33mcommit" etc. > qgit can still view the history without errors, so I guess it must be > possible to somehow turn off color for a specific query. A patch was posted, and is queued here: http://hjemli.net/git/git/commit/?h=q/mb/gitk/log--no-color