# git diff odds 3 messages from 2008-03-26 to 2008-03-27. Participants: Xavier Maillard, Linus Torvalds. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12866 ## Xavier Maillard, 2008-03-26 01:00 Subject: git diff odds Message-ID: <200803260100.m2Q10v2l005189@localhost.localdomain> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200803260100.m2Q10v2l005189%40localhost.localdomain ``` Hi, With LESS variable set as "-M", git diff displays escape sequence instead of the colored ouput (as requested in my .git/config => color.diff=auto). If set to FRSX, it works perfectly. Is this a bug ? Regards, Xavier P.S: I am unsubscribing from this list (too many messages) so please keep me in the Cc to respond. Thank you. -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org ``` ## Linus Torvalds, 2008-03-26 02:19 Subject: Re: git diff odds Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.1.00.0803251914150.2775%40woody.linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <200803260100.m2Q10v2l005189@localhost.localdomain> ``` On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > With LESS variable set as "-M", git diff displays escape sequence > instead of the colored ouput (as requested in my .git/config => > color.diff=auto). That's how 'less' works. It shows escape sequences as the escapes by default. > If set to FRSX, it works perfectly. It's the '-R' part that does the magic. > Is this a bug ? No, it's documented less behaviour. See "man less". If you want to use "-M", you can mix it with R (or the other flags, for that matter) and use "LESS=MR" or "LESS=FRSXM" or whatever you like. But if you want less to pass through colors, you need that R there somewhere. (You could use lower-case "r" too, but that's very dangerous, since it lets through _all_ escape sequences, including the ones that really screw up your terminal experience) Linus ``` ## Xavier Maillard, 2008-03-27 01:00 Subject: Re: git diff odds Message-ID: <200803270100.m2R101GJ003814@localhost.localdomain> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200803270100.m2R101GJ003814%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` > Is this a bug ? No, it's documented less behaviour. See "man less". Thank you very much for your explanations. Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org ```