Re: [PATCH] log: support 256 colors with --graph=256colors

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

If I were doing this, I'd just prepare a table with 32 color slots
or so [*1*], start at a random spot (say 017:00005f) of

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xterm_256color_chart.svg,

and pick spots by jumping southeast like a chess knight
(i.e. 017->030->043->086->...) until the table is filled, wrapping
around at the edge of that color chart as necessary.

If you want to play with that, [1] may help, which sorts colors in hsv
space, and you can select a few colors to see how they look, either
manually or by calculation. Yeah we probably get maybe 32 (or 48 if
you stretch it a bit) distinct colors. Not sure if it's any better
with true color terminals, probably not.

[1] https://gist.github.com/pclouds/616b67f0b5a9b20d74373286574cd0ac
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Duy