From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:08:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Need your help with MinGW Issue 17: --color options don't work (produce garbage)
Message-ID: <46CAF1DB.3080305@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl6ko51b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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