Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> writes: > Arrrrrrrgh! The message I wanted to send you went to Jeff. > > Your Mail-Followup-To: fooled me. Please do not do this. Sorry. > > Is there any reason not checking isatty()? > > Not that I can think of, but do people really run "git status"? I do :) > I think Jeff's follow-up "vim colorizer" makes a lot more sense > than colorizing "git status" output -- it gives reminder during > the last chance the user has to notice such problems, which is > while composing the commit log message. I like the colored git status. Here is a patch to honor isatty(1) and pager_in_use (exporting GIT_PAGER_IN_USE) with pager.color. --- >From c01b26cd332283d3b3feaeae4a8218bb409aea2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:09:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] git-status: do not use colors all the time Either [ -t 1 ] has to be true or the pager is used and pager.color is not false. Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> --- git-commit.sh | 6 +++++- pager.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh index b7269c2..ad0cbb1 100755 --- a/git-commit.sh +++ b/git-commit.sh @@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ case "$0" in *status) status_only=t unmerged_ok_if_status=--unmerged - color=`git-repo-config --bool --get status.color` + [ "`git-repo-config --bool --get status.color`" = 'true' ] && + ([ -t 1 ] || ( + [ -n "$GIT_PAGER_IN_USE" ] && + [ "`git-repo-config --bool --get pager.color`" != 'false' ] + )) && color=true eval `git-repo-config --get-regexp status.color. \ | while read k v; do echo color_${k#status.color.}=$v diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c index dcb398d..3ba4166 100644 --- a/pager.c +++ b/pager.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ void setup_pager(void) return; pager_in_use = 1; /* means we are emitting to terminal */ + setenv("GIT_PAGER_IN_USE", "1", 1); if (pipe(fd) < 0) return; -- 1.4.2.rc2.gd71a - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html