On 5 December 2012 23:14, Dave Reisner <d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. As far as I can tell, Git seems to be able to set the less -R option itself. But I notice it doesn’t work if the $LESS environment variable is already set. So I’d suggest manually adding -R as Dave said, or deleting the variable entirely.
