Re: Configuration overrides via environment variable

On Jan 29, 2008 9:58 AM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Jan Hudec [off-list ref] writes:

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:08:10 +1100, David Symonds wrote:

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I'm using Git in some scripts, and wanted to get its colorised output
even when it is not going to a tty. I don't want to permanently change
~/.gitconfig or the per-repo config; I just want to set color.status
(and perhaps others) to "always" for a one-off run. I suppose I could
munge the config files, storing the previous value and restoring it
later, but that's messy.

Cannot you just use --color option?

My version of Git (1.5.3.8) doesn't have a --color option for
git-status, and I can't find support for it in 'next', either. It
would be ideal if there was a --color option, though.


Dave.