Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background

Mirco Babin | Trip Software· Jun 23, 2021, 07:48 UTC · lore

Dear Git community,

git version 2.31.1.windows.1

Whenever I use GIT STATUS in a Windows cmd.exe dosbox the output is unreadable. Because of the usage of RED textcolor on a BLACK background.

See attached screenshot.png

Kind regards, Mirco Babin

Thomas Braun· Jun 23, 2021, 09:53 UTC · re: Mirco Babin | Trip Software · lore

Re: Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background

On 23.06.2021 09:48, Mirco Babin | Trip Software wrote:

Hi Mirco,

> Whenever I use GIT STATUS in a Windows cmd.exe dosbox the output is
> unreadable. Because of the usage of RED textcolor on a BLACK background.

you can tweak the global default for having colors on/off via the setting color.ui.

So for example doing

git config --global color.ui off

will turn colors globally off.

You can also tweak which colors are used, see color.status.<slot>. All the git config options can be seen with git help config.

I've checked here and here the red is quite a bit brighter compared to your screenshot, so I would not claim it is unreadable but that is of course heavily subjective.