@ Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote (2011-07-25 18:25+0200): > Hmm. What's old is new again, I guess. I posted a patch to fix this > almost exactly 3 years ago: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/90427 Unfortunately your patch from then seems no longer be sufficient (i.e., from my point of view, say), since this is also coloured: ?0%0[steffen@sherwood git.git]$ ./git -c color.ui=auto -c color.pager=false log >..> It's an ordering problem. [.] >..> However, breaking the dependency chain would require some pretty >..> major surgery, I think. [.] >..> I think the "right" solution would be refactoring the color stuff >..> to make the decision closer to the point of use. [.] > A more elegant solution would be to push the query to color.c to > happen at the time of color use, instead of during the startup > sequence. Beginners luck. In the end git(1) will get a visual.c output manager, and sideband.c rid of that TERM pollution. :-) --Steffen Ciao, sdaoden(*)(gmail.com) ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) More nuclear fission plants against HTML e-mail X can serve more coloured and proprietary attachments / \ and sounding animations -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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