# Re: win-test: unknown terminal "xterm-256color", was Re: \[RFC PATCH 6/6\] ls-tree: introduce '--pattern' option

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-03-28 21:05:08 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/03/7967413
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/03/7967413/t.md

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Jeff King [ref] writes:

> then I note two interesting things:
>
>   - the attempted colorization does nothing on ubuntu, because it's
>     already TERM=dumb

This is expected, I think.

>   - the colorization on windows works! But I thought it was exactly
>     these sorts of tputs that are causing the error messages.

Yeah, tput complains about unknown terminal as terminfo database is
not shipped.  But perhaps it falls back to bog-standard ANSI after
doing its complaining?  I dunno.

> ... I'm inclined to just leave it alone for now.

That's fine, too.

Thanks.

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