Re: [BUG] Some subcommands ignore color.diff and color.ui in --patch mode

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 21, 2025, 07:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20250821070050.GA3905042@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <SY4P282MB2965003F2D5DF18C6252978A8C33A@SY4P282MB2965.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:48:36PM +0000, Isaac Oscar Gariano wrote:

> > Have you tried setting interactive.diffFilter to "diff-highlight"?
> > That's what it was designed for.
> Wow thanks! that worked perfectly. You really should put that in the
> Readme (it only tells you to set pager.<cmd>).

Yes, I suspect that README hasn't been touched since well before the config option was introduced. ;)

I'm preparing a few patches and will include that.

-Peff

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