Re: [msysGit] Re: Need your help with MinGW Issue 17: --color options don't work (produce garbage)

From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date: Aug 15, 2007, 22:04 UTC
Message-ID: <46C37863.4020203@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl6ko51b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Heh, that almost suggests that the native Windows command.com
> support can disable the color without upsetting anybody ;-)
>

If that is the easiest way, yes.

I *do* think that trying to get color working on the DOS cmdline is a worthy goal. I just don't think it is worth overcomplicating the issue and trying to handle rare corner cases such as someone SSHing into a Windows box, or running CMD inside rxvt.

One approach that might be more compatible with the existing escape code approach is to define the appropriate ANSI color escape sequences. Ah, a bit more googling shows that cmd.exe doesn't handle ANSI sequences in Windows NT and later.

Regards,

Rogan