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Re: BUG: Cannot use bright colors

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 20, 2020, 16:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20200720165535.GI11341@szeder.dev>
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 07:29:52PM +0300, Martian Chronicles wrote:
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> Cannot configure git to use brightred, neither on Windows nor on Ubuntu. 
> 
> Steps to reproduce: 
> 
> 1. Create ~/.gitconfig with the two lines (or add to them to this file, if it exists):
> 
> [color.status]
>         untracked = brightred
> 
> 2. run `git status` from a directory with untracked files
> 
> Expected: output in brightred
> Actual on Linux:
> error: invalid color value: brightred fatal: bad config variable 'color.status.untracked' in file '/home/<username>/.gitconfig' at line 2 
> 
> Actual on windows:
>  brightred=normal=white.

Bright colors are supported since v2.26.0. What Git version did you try?

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