Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] for-each-ref: introduce %(color:...) for color

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 14, 2013, 07:03 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0k4MudojZt4PkLjnq0uZe322n30WP-=N0ckLw2QcnbzMA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq38n0dpgy.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Perhaps like this (obviously not tested as these three patches did
> not add any tests ;-)

Sorry about that. I didn't notice t6300-for-each-ref.sh. Will fix in the next round.

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> I also think that there should be a mechanism to do "color:reset"
> after each record is issued automatically, and also have the color
> output honor --color=auto from the command line, i.e.
>
>         git for-each-ref --color=auto --format='%(color:blue)%(subject)' | cat
>
> should turn the coloring off.

We can add --color=auto later, but I'm wondering about auto-reset color after each token. What happens if I do:

  $ git for-each-ref --format='%(subject)%(color:blue)'

No color, right? So, it should be auto-reset color after each token _and_ at end of format-string.