Fwd: [PATCH] Remove terminal symbols from non-terminal console

From: Michael Naumov <mnaoumov@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 5, 2012, 23:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CABHRWd16k6B4Ybvc4k7z29_A9Q2wZVXA__Bov8Pst4cc2H0cmg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABHRWd1T=a8Mze20G9koiTr0L2Nrq0g3vGLC9mEZ7rA45vgfSA@mail.gmail.com>

As per discussion on msysgit user group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/msysgit/U_a982_a3rc/discussion we found the following patch is required to get rid of weird terminal characters for other tools such as GitExtensions for Windows

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diff --git a/sideband.c b/sideband.c
index d5ffa1c..bd3e5a8 100644
--- a/sideband.c
+++ b/sideband.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ int recv_sideband(const char *me, int in_stream, int out)

  memcpy(buf, PREFIX, pf);
  term = getenv("TERM");
- if (term && strcmp(term, "dumb"))
+ if (isatty(out) && term && strcmp(term, "dumb"))
  suffix = ANSI_SUFFIX;
  else
  suffix = DUMB_SUFFIX;
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