From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:05:03 GMT
Subject: Re: win-test: unknown terminal "xterm-256color", was Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] ls-tree: introduce '--pattern' option
Message-ID: <xmqqfs9oege8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20230328204318.GA1274197@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> then I note two interesting things:
>
>   - the attempted colorization does nothing on ubuntu, because it's
>     already TERM=dumb

This is expected, I think.

>   - the colorization on windows works! But I thought it was exactly
>     these sorts of tputs that are causing the error messages.

Yeah, tput complains about unknown terminal as terminfo database is
not shipped.  But perhaps it falls back to bog-standard ANSI after
doing its complaining?  I dunno.

> ... I'm inclined to just leave it alone for now.

That's fine, too.

Thanks.