Re: Adding color to git-add--interactive

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2007, 14:44 UTC
Message-ID: <4D8B16C8-C543-4E67-B0D1-F737A4D14B25@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710091503460.4174@racer.site>

El 9/10/2007, a las 16:04, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

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> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 9/10/2007, a las 15:06, Jonathan del Strother escribió:
>>
>>> Or am I alone in finding interactive mode basically unreadable?
>>
>> I don't think you're alone. Compared with the nice colorized  
>> output from
>> things like git-status, git-log, git-diff and friends, the output of
>> "git-add --interactive" is decidedly hard to read.
>
> And since git-add--interactive is still a script, there is no excuse:
> providing a patch should take the same time and amount of work as
> complaining about the lack of colour.

Why so combative, Johannes? I merely answered one of Jonathan's questions. Nobody has proffered any "excuses".

And in any case, you're exaggerating. Jonathan said that he's already invested time in trying to get it working, most certainly more time than it has taken he, you or I, to write the emails in this thread, and he's gotten as far as his Perl knowledge permits him.

Cheers, Wincent