On Dec 5, 2012 6:11 PM, "Marcel Korpel" <marcel.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I already asked this at the forums, but as no one has an answer there > I hope someone here knows a solution. On a Git cheat sheet I found > that I could add nice colors to Git's output, so I edited my > ~/.gitconfig by adding: > > [color] > ui = auto > [color "branch"] > current = yellow reverse > local = yellow > remote = green > [color "diff"] > meta = yellow bold > frag = magenta bold > old = red bold > new = green bold > [color "status"] > added = yellow > changed = green > untracked = cyan > > When performing a git log my terminal looks like this: > http://ompldr.org/vZ2t1bA (escape sequences instead of colors). The > same problem appears with git diff: http://ompldr.org/vZ2t1bg > > However, as you can see in the second screenshot, git status and git > branch look correct. This happens in urxvt, but also in xterm and the > terminal screens (tty[1-6]). > > Do you know what's wrong? > > Regards, Marcel Your pager is to blame. Assuming you're using less, you need to pass the -R option. You can add: export LESS=-R To your shell rc file.
