On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 07:29:52PM +0300, Martian Chronicles wrote: > Cannot configure git to use brightred, neither on Windows nor on Ubuntu. > > Steps to reproduce: > > 1. Create ~/.gitconfig with the two lines (or add to them to this file, if it exists): > > [color.status] > untracked = brightred > > 2. run `git status` from a directory with untracked files > > Expected: output in brightred > Actual on Linux: > error: invalid color value: brightred fatal: bad config variable 'color.status.untracked' in file '/home/<username>/.gitconfig' at line 2 > > Actual on windows: > brightred=normal=white. Bright colors are supported since v2.26.0. What Git version did you try?