Re: git slow unless piped to cat

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