Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> So it should be fine to just set TERM=dumb everywhere. What actually
> confuses me is that we try to do so already:
>
> $ git grep -B1 dumb ci/lib.sh
> ci/lib.sh-# GitHub Action doesn't set TERM, which is required by tput
> ci/lib.sh:export TERM=${TERM:-dumb}
>
> Pushing a stripped-down workflow file to just run "echo $TERM" shows
> that it seems to already be set by Actions to "dumb" on ubuntu-latest,
> but is xterm-256color on windows-latest.
>
> So maybe we just want to make the line above unconditionally set $TERM?
I thought that Dscho earlier said xterm-256 is set by mingw when
nothing is set to TERM, which explains why TERM=${TERM:-dumb} is
not good enough to "fix" this one for them.
I am fine with an unconditional assignment for CI.
Thanks.
