From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:58:31 GMT
Subject: Re: color (red) for error messages on all git commands
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1003241558t4c4c5cf8t3a7d9b9856937c4f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <hoe4j3$2vg$1@dough.gmane.org>

Heya,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 23:44, Neal Kreitzinger <neal@rsss.com> wrote:
> Problem Scenario:  programmer doesn't pay attention to messages as he
> becomes more familiar with git and as a result doesn't notice error messages
> until its too late.  Mistakes take longer to remediate because the original
> error message was not resolved at the time it occurred.
>
> Desired Solution:  configure git to display all error messages in color,
> e.g. red, so that the programmer does not overlook error messages.

That's actually something I run into as well, I am so used to git just
doing what I want that I don't notice the error messages when they
occur. If this is indeed desired (probably controlled by color.warning
and color.error?) it should be fairly easy to implement (see usage.c).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier