Re: [PATCH v3] log --graph: customize the graph lines with config log.graphColors

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 9, 2017, 05:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20170109053446.2vg3y37ck5ahhyxg@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170108101333.26221-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 05:13:33PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

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> If you have a 256 colors terminal (or one with true color support), then
> the predefined 12 colors seem limited. On the other hand, you don't want
> to draw graph lines with every single color in this mode because the two
> colors could look extremely similar. This option allows you to hand pick
> the colors you want.
> 
> Even with standard terminal, if your background color is neither black
> or white, then the graph line may match your background and become
> hidden. You can exclude your background color (or simply the colors you
> hate) with this.

I like this approach much more than the 256-color option.

>  * I'm not going with the cumulative behavior because I think that's
>    just harder to manage colors, and we would need a way to remove
>    colors from the config too.

Yeah, figuring out the list semantics would be a pain. This makes it hard to exclude a single color, but I think it's more likely somebody would want to replace the whole set with something that works well against their background.

> +test_expect_success 'log --graph with merge with log.graphColors' '
> +	test_config log.graphColors " blue , cyan , red " &&

This funny syntax isn't required, right? It should work with the more natural:

    test_config log.graphColors "blue, cyan, red"

-Peff