Currently, with diff-coloring enabled, git-diff outputs color escape
sequences even if stdout is redirected (not a tty). This is rather annoying
when trying to further process the output. This patch teaches the diff command
to only do its coloring stuff when a pager is in use or stdout is a tty.
Signed-off-by: Michel Marti <mma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 1958970..988e741 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ static void free_diff_words_data(struct emit_callback *ecbdata)
const char *diff_get_color(int diff_use_color, enum color_diff ix)
{
- if (diff_use_color)
+ if (diff_use_color && (pager_in_use || isatty(STDOUT_FILENO)))
return diff_colors[ix];
return "";
}
--
1.5.2.2
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