From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:16:59 GMT
Subject: Re: FW: Git log --graph doesn't output color when redirected
Message-ID: <20121215101659.GB21577@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AgtwtJfMXzArJLiHQtR+WNRJxRdRgUts30EN-QvgGT=g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:23:10AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > If you are using --format="%C(red)" or similar placeholders,
> > they are the odd duck by not respecting the auto-color mode.
> 
> But they should, shouldn't they? Just asking. I may do it to when I
> revive nd/pretty-placeholder-with-color-option.

If I were designing --format today, I would certainly say so. The only
thing holding me back would be backwards compatibility. We could get
around that by introducing a new placeholder like %c(color) that behaves
like %C(color), except respects the --color flag.

It looks like this came up before:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169225

but never got pushed to inclusion.

-Peff