From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:22:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Need your help with MinGW Issue 17: --color options don't work (produce garbage)
Message-ID: <46C36E7C.1080501@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708151708570.19222@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hmm.  Somehow I doubt that this hack works _outside_ of the Windows 
> console.  I.e. if you call git in rxvt, it will fail, if you ssh into 
> Windows, it will fail.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
> 

I'd say that since Windows doesn't have the concept of terminfo or 
terminal types, and since SSH is mostly only supported through 
cygwin-style "hacks", (or F-Secure, but I have no experience with that) 
that we should not be _too_ concerned about that.

Users that *do* need to use rxvt or SSH should simply disable the color 
mode, or alternatively, use the cygwin version. Color, while useful, is 
hardly critical functionality.

My R0.02.

Regards,

Rogan