Re: [PATCH] Add color to git-add--interactive diffs (Total different idea to solve the problem)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 22, 2007, 23:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710230054130.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071022204719.GA23348@xp.machine.xx>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:

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> Wouldn't it make more sense to implement the diff coloring inside git 
> apply so that you could use something like
> 
>         diff file1 file2|git apply --color
> 
> to make the generated diff with colors [1]? It already implements the
> same semantic for generating a diffstat, using
> 
>         diff file1 file2|git apply --stat

No. In both cases, "git diff" realises that the output is no terminal, and switches off color generation. (Just try with diff.color=true instead of =auto.)

Ciao, Dscho