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[PATCH] Pretty formats: skip color codes if !want_color()

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OHOren Held <oren@held.org.il>
Date
Dec 17, 2012, 22:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20121217225703.GC25103@orenhe-laptop>

Avoid color escape codes if colors are disabled, just like the behavior of other git commands. This solves the case of color escape codes in stdout when piping or redirecting, e.g.: $ git log --format=%Cred%h > out

Signed-off-by: Oren Held <oren@held.org.il>
---
Would appreciate your help or comments :)
 pretty.c |   18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index 5bdc2e7..9637dfd 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -947,6 +947,12 @@ static int format_reflog_person(struct strbuf *sb,
 	return format_person_part(sb, part, ident, strlen(ident), dmode);
 }
 
+static void conditional_strbuf_addstr(int conditional, struct strbuf *sb,
+				      const char *s) {
+	if (conditional)
+		strbuf_addstr(sb, s);
+}
+
 static size_t format_commit_one(struct strbuf *sb, const char *placeholder,
 				void *context)
 {
@@ -956,6 +962,8 @@ static size_t format_commit_one(struct strbuf *sb, const char *placeholder,
 	struct commit_list *p;
 	int h1, h2;
 
+	int colors_enabled = want_color(GIT_COLOR_UNKNOWN);
+
 	/* these are independent of the commit */
 	switch (placeholder[0]) {
 	case 'C':
@@ -967,20 +975,20 @@ static size_t format_commit_one(struct strbuf *sb, const char *placeholder,
 			color_parse_mem(placeholder + 2,
 					end - (placeholder + 2),
 					"--pretty format", color);
-			strbuf_addstr(sb, color);
+			conditional_strbuf_addstr(colors_enabled, sb, color);
 			return end - placeholder + 1;
 		}
 		if (!prefixcmp(placeholder + 1, "red")) {
-			strbuf_addstr(sb, GIT_COLOR_RED);
+			conditional_strbuf_addstr(colors_enabled, sb, GIT_COLOR_RED);
 			return 4;
 		} else if (!prefixcmp(placeholder + 1, "green")) {
-			strbuf_addstr(sb, GIT_COLOR_GREEN);
+			conditional_strbuf_addstr(colors_enabled, sb, GIT_COLOR_GREEN);
 			return 6;
 		} else if (!prefixcmp(placeholder + 1, "blue")) {
-			strbuf_addstr(sb, GIT_COLOR_BLUE);
+			conditional_strbuf_addstr(colors_enabled, sb, GIT_COLOR_BLUE);
 			return 5;
 		} else if (!prefixcmp(placeholder + 1, "reset")) {
-			strbuf_addstr(sb, GIT_COLOR_RESET);
+			conditional_strbuf_addstr(colors_enabled, sb, GIT_COLOR_RESET);
 			return 6;
 		} else
 			return 0;
-- 
1.7.10.4
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