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

2 messages from 2021-06-23 to 2021-06-23. Participants: Mirco Babin | Trip Software, Thomas Braun.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/55991

## Mirco Babin | Trip Software, 2021-06-23 07:48

Subject: Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background
Message-ID: <emb173d90c-68d0-44ac-9d8d-faf6aaa85444@mirconb>
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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

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## Thomas Braun, 2021-06-23 09:53

Subject: Re: Windows: GIT STATUS unreadable because the usage of RED textcolor on BLACK background
Message-ID: <c74e78f7-a6d3-1c56-a3bd-f7981a672437@virtuell-zuhause.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c74e78f7-a6d3-1c56-a3bd-f7981a672437%40virtuell-zuhause.de
In-Reply-To: <emb173d90c-68d0-44ac-9d8d-faf6aaa85444@mirconb>

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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.

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