From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:33:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git slow unless piped to cat
Message-ID: <20190827103309.GA8571@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <20190827100427.u3a5uvmylm5vddn2@pengutronix.de>

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> I'm a bit surprised that the default for --decorate depends on the
> output being a terminal.

Decorations (and colors as well) are for humans, and humans read the
terminal.

> Thanks for your help, I will think about what I want to do. Just using
> --no-decorate will work, but isn't nice either. Will test if just
> throwing away all those tags from linux-next will make this already
> better.

Note that you can disable decorations by setting the 'log.decorate'
configuration variable to false.