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Re: [PATCH] Add color to git-add--interactive diffs (Take 2: now without spurious line break!)

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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
Oct 14, 2007, 21:01 UTC
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El 14/10/2007, a las 19:15, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
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> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>>> +sub parse_color {
>>
>> You could simplify the manual escape sequence construction that  
>> you're
>> doing here by using Term::ANSIColor like the other patches did. I see
>> that git-send-email.perl uses that module too, so I guess  
>> depending on
>> that module is ok.
>
> Wrong.  Depending on that module is not correct, you always have to  
> wrap
> it into an "if (<is_color>) {...}".
>
> I use git add -i quite often, and I _never_ use git send-email.  My  
> guess
> is that I am not alone with that.

In that case I propose factoring out the escape sequence generation into git.pm, where it can be used by git-send-email, git-add-- interactive, or any other Perl script in Git. Do you think that's a good idea? If so I'll try whipping up a patch along those lines.

Wincent
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Message 5 of 9 in “Add color to git-add--interactive diffs (Take 2: now without spurious line break!)”
  1. Add color to git-add--interactive diffs (Take 2: now without spurious line break!)Tom Tobin, Oct 14, 2007
  2. Wincent ColaiutaOct 14, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinOct 14, 2007
  4. Andreas EricssonOct 14, 2007
  5. Wincent ColaiutaOct 14, 2007
  6. Peter BaumannOct 22, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 22, 2007
  8. Peter BaumannOct 23, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinOct 23, 2007

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