Re: [PATCH] git-status: colorize status output

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref] writes:
Arrrrrrrgh!  The message I wanted to send you went to Jeff.

Your Mail-Followup-To: fooled me.  Please do not do this.

Sorry.

quoted

Is there any reason not checking isatty()?

Not that I can think of, but do people really run "git status"?

I do :)

I think Jeff's follow-up "vim colorizer" makes a lot more sense
than colorizing "git status" output -- it gives reminder during
the last chance the user has to notice such problems, which is
while composing the commit log message.

I like the colored git status.  Here is a patch to honor isatty(1) and
pager_in_use (exporting GIT_PAGER_IN_USE) with pager.color.

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From c01b26cd332283d3b3feaeae4a8218bb409aea2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Lederhofer <redacted>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:09:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] git-status: do not use colors all the time

Either [ -t 1 ] has to be true or the pager is used and pager.color is
not false.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <redacted>
---
 git-commit.sh |    6 +++++-
 pager.c       |    1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh
index b7269c2..ad0cbb1 100755
--- a/git-commit.sh
+++ b/git-commit.sh

@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ case "$0" in
 *status)
 	status_only=t
 	unmerged_ok_if_status=--unmerged
-	color=`git-repo-config --bool --get status.color`
+	[ "`git-repo-config --bool --get status.color`" = 'true' ] &&
+		([ -t 1 ] || (
+			[ -n "$GIT_PAGER_IN_USE" ] &&
+			[ "`git-repo-config --bool --get pager.color`" != 'false' ]
+		)) && color=true
 	eval `git-repo-config --get-regexp status.color. \
 	      | while read k v; do
 	          echo color_${k#status.color.}=$v

diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index dcb398d..3ba4166 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ void setup_pager(void)
 		return;
 
 	pager_in_use = 1; /* means we are emitting to terminal */
+	setenv("GIT_PAGER_IN_USE", "1", 1);
 
 	if (pipe(fd) < 0)
 		return;

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