Re: Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background

From: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
Date: Jun 23, 2021, 09:53 UTC
Message-ID: <c74e78f7-a6d3-1c56-a3bd-f7981a672437@virtuell-zuhause.de>
In-Reply-To: <emb173d90c-68d0-44ac-9d8d-faf6aaa85444@mirconb>

On 23.06.2021 09:48, Mirco Babin | Trip Software wrote:

Hi Mirco,

> Whenever I use GIT STATUS in a Windows cmd.exe dosbox the output is
> unreadable. Because of the usage of RED textcolor on a BLACK background.

you can tweak the global default for having colors on/off via the setting color.ui.

So for example doing

git config --global color.ui off

will turn colors globally off.

You can also tweak which colors are used, see color.status.<slot>. All the git config options can be seen with git help config.

I've checked here and here the red is quite a bit brighter compared to your screenshot, so I would not claim it is unreadable but that is of course heavily subjective.