From: Srb, Michal <michal.srb11@imperial.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:34:29 GMT
Subject: RE: FW: Git log --graph doesn't output color when redirected
Message-ID: <72BB37CB88C48F4B925365539F1EE46C1826168A@icexch-m3.ic.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20121213131329.GA5042@sigill.intra.peff.net>

From: Jeff King [peff@peff.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:13 PM

>> Is there a setting somewhere in config to change this?

> Yes. If you use "--color" on the command line, that means
> "unconditionally use color". If you set color.ui (or any other
> color config option) to "always", then you will always get color (and
> you can disable it for a particular run with "--no-color"). Setting a color
> config option to "true" is the same as "auto", which gets you 
> the auto mode.
 
Setting color in gitconfig didn't work for me on msys, but --color 
works like magic, thanks!