Re: [msysGit] Re: Need your help with MinGW Issue 17: --color options don't work (produce garbage)

From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2007, 08:03 UTC
Message-ID: <a1bbc6950708150103v35330b47o781fb5d74e3d9aef@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640708150032l7441b285mc2cc9e22702bce21@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/15/07, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> On 15/08/07, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
> > Here are the facts:
> >
> > 'git branch --color' produces garbage:
> > $ git branch --color
> >   devel←[m
> >   dima←[m
> >   dmitryk←[m
> > * ←[32mmaster←[m
> >   mob←[m
> >   next←[m
> >
> > 'git branch --color | cat' produces expected colored output.
> >
> > I've traced it down to printf statement in gdb and it sends the right
> > esc-sequence.
> > Where should I look next?
>
> Windows doesn't recognise the *nix printf colour codes.
>
> Piping through cat will be going through cygwin/mingw emulation,
> translating the colour codes to the correct API calls.

That's my question. If there is a way to build cat.exe to do this kind of emulation under MinGW then I should be able to do the same for git.exe. I hope I just need to #define something while building Git. But what is it?

-- 
- Dmitry