Re: [PATCH] git-status: colorize status output

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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:14:19PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> The git-status output can sometimes be very verbose, making it difficult to
> quickly see whether your files are updated in the index. This adds 4 levels
> of colorizing to the status output:
>   - general header (defaults to normal white)
>   - updated but not committed (defaults to green)
>   - changed but not updated (defaults to red)
>   - untracked files (defaults to red)

Please do one of two things:
1) Add code to discover a terminal is white-on-black and use bright colors
or
2) Default this to off.

I like the idea of colors, but the colors most people use in
black-on-white terminals are invisible on my screen.  colorls has the
same problem.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle
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