Re: Difficulty with parsing colorized diff output

> I first started playing around with terminal colors about 5 years ago,
> and I recall learning the hard way that Apple Terminal at least
> behaves very strangely when you have background colors cross line
> boundaries: background colors disappeared when I scrolled lines back
> into view. I filed a bug thinking it couldn't be right and Apple
> closed it as behaving according to compatibility expectations. I never
> figured out whether they had misunderstood my report or if old
> terminals were just that crazy. Instead I decided that the safe thing
> to do was reset after every line. Perhaps some git author reached the
> same conclusion.