Re: [PATCH] When nothing to git-commit, honor the git-status color setting.

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:35:26PM -0400, Brian Hetro wrote:

Instead of disabling color all of the time during a git-commit, allow
the user's config preference in the situation where there is nothing
to commit.  In this situation, the status is printed to the terminal
and not sent to COMMIT_EDITMSG, so honoring the status color setting
is expected.

Thanks, this had been annoying me for a while. For some reason, I was
thinking that it was not going to be trivial to fix, because I thought
for efficiency reasons we only ran run_status once and used the output
for either the commit template or for dumping to the user. But I can't
seem to find any revision where that is the case, so obviously somebody
spiked my drink. For a month.

A minor nit on the implementation:

+	if test "$status_only" = "t" -o "$use_status_color" = "t"; then
+		color=
+	else
+		color=--nocolor
+	fi

This variable doesn't really say "use color"; it says "don't explicitly
turn off color". So perhaps there is a better name (respect_color or
similar)?

-Peff