Re: Pretty format color bug

From: Raphael Bauer <raphael@pdev.de>
Date: Feb 22, 2022, 00:15 UTC
Message-ID: <6f0d1c12-4cf8-bbdd-96d4-eae99317e2e4@pdev.de>
In-Reply-To: <220222.865yp7aj6z.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

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> I think you've found a "bug" or unexpected feature, but it's not in git,
> but in your pager.
> 
> Try:
>      PAGER=cat git log --pretty=format:'%h%Cred%+d test'

Interesting, cat works correctly. But this still fails for me: PAGER=cat git log --pretty=format:'%h%Cred%+d test' --graph

The pipe symbol printed (because of --graph) for the second line is colored and resets the color of the refnames and 'test'. Now this looks like a bug in git?

> I'm assuming you're using "less" and are about to read about its
> behavior of resetting colors that are still in effect when it hits a
> newline.

There is a section (-R) that mentions less assumes every line starts normal / uncolored. Shouldn't git follow this assumption when printing colorized to less?