Re: Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff

> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> 
> > As I mentioned on the patch itself, I'd prefer if Git didn't do this.  I
> > have my own colors configured and don't want Git to render its man
> > output differently from what I have.  Even if I didn't, I wouldn't want
> > Git to change the output of man(1) to be different from what's on the
> > system.
> >
> > I should point out that I have my shell configuration set up to use
> > different colors depending on the capability of the terminal, such as
> > using a 256-color palette when that's supported and a 16-color palette
> > when it's not, so there is literally no configuration that Git can
> > provide here that matches my existing settings.
> 
> git -c color.man=false help -m" would let you consume the output in
> any way you want, I would presume?