From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:40:19 GMT
Subject: Re: General output formatting
Message-ID: <xmqqfrjz6xkc.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <18ed50b3-e5a4-43b3-a543-f9a3d2c309e6@xiplink.com>

Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:

> I have no opinion on exactly how to "butcher" the output for a
> terminal.   I guess it depends on how well Git wants to support
> copy/paste of its output.

Yup, that is a fine balancing act.  Given the current behaviour,

    $ cat .git/config
    [core]
            somevalue = "true\b\b\b\bfalse"
    $ git config --local --list
    core.somevalue=false

supporting copy-paste may not be such a good thing to do, though ;-)