From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:12:28 GMT
Subject: Re: color (red) for error messages on all git commands
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 23:58, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 23:44, Neal Kreitzinger <neal@rsss.com> wrote:
>> Desired Solution:  configure git to display all error messages in color,
>> e.g. red, so that the programmer does not overlook error messages.

It is considered a good behavior for a UNIX program only to display
something if there is an error. Git just tries to follow this tradition.

> That's actually something I run into as well, I am so used to git just
> doing what I want that I don't notice the error messages when they
> occur. If this is indeed desired (probably controlled by color.warning
> and color.error?) it should be fairly easy to implement (see usage.c).

That said, I also like the idea. Don't forget to check for tty in the patch.