From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 17:45:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] sideband.c: Get rid of ANSI sequences for non-terminal shell Message-ID: <20140529174516.GA10865@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <81E85F13A4BE084BAF4B1AA24173EDA012924D8B@JWPKEXMBX03.corp.checkfree.com> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 03:12:15AM +0000, Naumov, Michael (North Sydney) wrote: > Some git tools such as GitExtensions for Windows use environment > variable TERM=msys which causes the weird ANSI sequence shown for the > messages returned from server-side hooks > We add those ANSI sequences to help format sideband data on the user's > terminal. However, GitExtensions is not using a terminal, and the ANSI > sequences just confuses it. We can recognize this use by checking > isatty(). > See https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/issues/1313 for > more details Please wrap your commit messages (and emails) at something reasonable to fit on an 80-char terminal with indentation (I usually use 60, but anything <= 72 is probably fine). Other than that, I think the patch looks fine. > P.S. I gave up trying to send this letter from gmail, it eats my tab character > P.S 2. Sorry, my tab character has been eaten again! This version looks OK to me (and applies via git-am). -Peff