Re: [msysGit] Re: Need your help with MinGW Issue 17: --color options don't work (produce garbage)

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On 8/15/07, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 15/08/07, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
> > Here are the facts:
> >
> > 'git branch --color' produces garbage:
> > $ git branch --color
> >   devel←[m
> >   dima←[m
> >   dmitryk←[m
> > * ←[32mmaster←[m
> >   mob←[m
> >   next←[m
> >
> > 'git branch --color | cat' produces expected colored output.
> >
> > I've traced it down to printf statement in gdb and it sends the right
> > esc-sequence.
> > Where should I look next?
>
> Windows doesn't recognise the *nix printf colour codes.
>
> Piping through cat will be going through cygwin/mingw emulation,
> translating the colour codes to the correct API calls.

That's my question. If there is a way to build cat.exe to do this kind
of emulation under MinGW then I should be able to do the same for
git.exe.
I hope I just need to #define something while building Git.
But what is it?
-- 
- Dmitry
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