# msysgit color scheme

2 messages from 2014-02-28 to 2014-03-02. Participants: Robert Dailey, Erik Faye-Lund.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/36004

## Robert Dailey, 2014-02-28 22:38

Subject: msysgit color scheme
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Is there a way to change color scheme in msysgit without going through
the Properties >> Colors settings?

Reason I ask is because I share the same HOME directory and .bashrc
file between msysgit and cygwin, and it'd be nice to use the same
color scheme defined in the bashrc between both.

Any tips?

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## Erik Faye-Lund, 2014-03-02 23:27

Subject: Re: msysgit color scheme
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Robert Dailey
<rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to change color scheme in msysgit without going through
> the Properties >> Colors settings?
>
> Reason I ask is because I share the same HOME directory and .bashrc
> file between msysgit and cygwin, and it'd be nice to use the same
> color scheme defined in the bashrc between both.

Not really. The reason is that in cygwin, it's the terminal emulatorl
that does the coloring, but this doesn't work for non-cygwin programs.
So we're detecting if stdout points to a console, and setting
win32-console attributes directly. If you're interested in the
details, see compat/winansi.c.

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