Re: git slow unless piped to cat

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date: Aug 27, 2019, 10:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20190827105638.2og6vwvqtzkkqn5p@pengutronix.de>
In-Reply-To: <20190827103309.GA8571@szeder.dev>

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:33:09PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

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> 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.

I agree for colors only. Changing the actually provided information depending on output being a terminal is IMHO at least surprising.

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> > 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.

Being able to configure --decorate-refs= and --decorate-refs-exclude= in the config would be nice ...

Best regards Uwe

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