From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:05:53 GMT
Subject: Re: rfe: git-config: lack of color reset option
Message-ID: <7vwr7hjh32.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120220212006.GB6335@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> This is an artifact of the way the ANSI colorizing works. Git says "turn
> on bold white and a blue background", then it outputs some content, then
> it says "turn on green", and so forth. At the end we issue a "reset" to
> turn everything back to normal. We should perhaps issue a reset before
> outputting the decoration, as we are moving from one colorized bit to
> the other, and we don't know what we are inheriting.

Yeah, I agree with the diagnosis and the proposed solution. It sounds
both simple and correct thing to do.