On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 01:27:12PM +1000, Michael Naumov wrote: > From ae8d04fdbd71cf322e67903826544d5431f2866d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Michael Naumov <mnaoumov@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 12:45:06 +1000 > Subject: [PATCH] sideband.c: Get rid of ANSI sequence for non-terminal shell You can drop these lines; they are redundant with your email's headers (but see below for more email tips). > Some git tools such as GitExtensions for Windows use environment variable > TERM=msys which causes the weird ANSI sequence shown for the messages > returned from server-side hooks > > See https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/issues/1313 for more > details It's nice to give a pointer to more discussion, but it's also a good idea to give a one- or two-sentence summary. Something like (after your first paragraph): We add those ANSI sequences to help format sideband data on the user's terminal. However, these extensions are not using a terminal, and the sequences just confuse them. We can recognize this use by checking isatty(). > NOTE: I considered to cover the case that a pager has already been started. > But decided that is probably not worth worrying about here, though, as we > shouldn't be using a pager for commands that do network communications (and > if we do, omitting the magic line-clearing signal is probably a sane thing > to do). I was nodding my head in agreement at this, and then went back and realized that it is paraphrasing me. So I definitely agree with it. :) > Signed-off-by: Michael Naumov <mnaoumov@xxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks-to: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> > Thanks-to: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> A minor nit, but please keep these "trailers" together in a single paragraph. Elsewhere on the list people are developing tools to write and parse them, and I believe that they only look backwards up to the last empty line. > diff --git a/sideband.c b/sideband.c > index d1125f5..7f9dc22 100644 > --- a/sideband.c > +++ b/sideband.c > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ int recv_sideband(const char *me, int in_stream, int out) > > memcpy(buf, PREFIX, pf); > term = getenv("TERM"); > - if (term && strcmp(term, "dumb")) > + if (isatty(2) && term && strcmp(term, "dumb")) > suffix = ANSI_SUFFIX; > else > suffix = DUMB_SUFFIX; Your patch looks whitespace damaged. It was also sent as a multipart/alternative with html, which I suspect means it did not make it to the list. It looks like you're using gmail. The simplest thing is to just use git-send-email to send it; there are tips for configuring send-email with gmail in "git help send-email". -Peff -- 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