Re: gitk fails to parse git log output in 1.5.3

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com> writes:

> gitk shows an error "Can't parse git log output: {\x1b[33commit..." at
> startup and quits.
>
> Obviously it's because my git-log outputs in color mode. But the same
> happens (and git-log still outputs in colors) after I set color.pager=false. 
>
> What am I missing?

This will quickly turn into an FAQ.

Please see:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57204

for details and a possible future plans.  Making "diff.color =
true" to always color was a mistake, and if you have such a
configuration, it would break any script that reads from "git
log".  In the meantime, do not do "diff.color = true" (or
"color.diff = true") in your configuration; say "auto" instead
of "true", and/or apply this patch.

---

 gitk |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 300fdce..9c21eff 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ proc start_rev_list {view} {
     }
     if {[catch {
 	set fd [open [concat | git log -z --pretty=raw $order --parents \
+			 --no-color \
 			 --boundary $viewargs($view) "--" $viewfiles($view)] r]
     } err]} {
 	error_popup "Error executing git rev-list: $err"