Re: [PATCH] Make --color available to git-status

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: May 6, 2007, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq64762gwa.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051956200.4015@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 5 May 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Git has a nice colored output for status, using
>> 
>> $ git runstatus --color
>> 
>> However, this --color is not made available to git-status itself.
>
> AFAIR there have been attempts to enable this by default, when git-status 
> is run interactively (i.e. its output is not piped). However, this proved 
> to be remarkably complex, given that the output of runstatus _is_ piped.

It would definitely be cool to have it enabled by default, but just having the option (which means in particular that users can use it in an alias) should be the minimum.

I don't have enough experience with git hacking to do all the way you suggest, so I'm starting with easy things ;-).

-- 
Matthieu