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 21, 2007, 14:08 UTC
Message-ID: <46CAF1DB.3080305@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 ;-)
>

Following my other comment in this regard, another reason that colour in the cmd line tools is less important, is because my impression of the intent of the Windows port (end goal, that is), is that the user will be able to use a Windows GUI front-end to do whatever it is they want to.

And so the GUI front-end will be responsible for implementing the color anyway, most likely through pattern matching and a state machine.

Regards,

Rogan