From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:49:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9001: set TERM=dumb to prevent ANSI output
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803071948000.19395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vbq5q301l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> >> > ...
> >> >> This may not work well with colored output.
> >> >> In test-lib.sh line 62 there is :
> >> >>
> >> >> [ "x$TERM" != "xdumb" ] &&
> >> >> 	[ -t 1 ] &&
> >> >> 	tput bold >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
> >> >> 	tput setaf 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
> >> >> 	tput sgr0 >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
> >> >> 	color=t
> >> >
> >> > Ahh.  Sorry about that.
> >> 
> >> Ahem, third time lucky.
> >
> > Well, with this:
> >
> >>  t/test-lib.sh |   24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> >
> > I think it is no longer worth it _not_ to special-case it.  IOW I'd prefer 
> > my original patch for simplicity.
> 
> Hmm.  Do you still prefer "patch individual" approach, even after
> considering longer term maintainability?

Well, I am not the maintainer, and I don't envy you for that.

You are a kick-ass maintainer, so I think whatever you feel is the best 
way to proceed now, is good.

Ciao,
Dscho