Re: [PATCH] Add the --submodule-summary option to the diff option family

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >> +	fwrite(sb.buf, sb.len, 1, f);
> >> +
> >> +	if (!message) {
> >> +		while ((commit = get_revision(&rev))) {
> >> +			strbuf_setlen(&sb, 0);
> >> +			if (del)
> >> +				strbuf_addstr(&sb, commit->object.flags &
> >> +						SYMMETRIC_LEFT ? del : add);
> >> +			format_commit_message(commit, format, &sb,
> >> +					rev.date_mode);
> >> +			if (del)
> >> +				strbuf_addstr(&sb, reset);
> > 
> >  - In the "ANSI-terminal only" world view, adding colors to strbuf and
> >    writing it out together with the actual strings is an easy thing to do.
> >    Don't Windows folks have trouble converting this kind of code to their
> >    color control call that is separate from writing strings out?  If it is
> >    not a problem, I do not have any objection to it, but otherwise I'd
> >    suggest not to add any more code that stores color escape sequence in
> >    strbuf, so that we would not make later conversion by Windows folks
> >    harder than necessary.
> 
> Thanks for noticing this! To store color escapes in strbuf is not a
> problem as long as the string is finally written using printf, fprintf, or
> fputs.
> 
> >> +			strbuf_addch(&sb, '\n');
> >> +			fwrite(sb.buf, sb.len, 1, f);
> 
> Outch! fwrite doesn't interpret color escapes. AFAICS, this sequence is
> easy to change such that it uses fprintf().