git diff odds

git diff odds

[Xavier Maillard]

Hi,

With LESS variable set as "-M", git diff displays escape sequence
instead of the colored ouput (as requested in my .git/config =>
color.diff=auto). If set to FRSX, it works perfectly.

Is this a bug ?

Regards,

	Xavier

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Re: git diff odds

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> 
> With LESS variable set as "-M", git diff displays escape sequence
> instead of the colored ouput (as requested in my .git/config =>
> color.diff=auto).

That's how 'less' works. It shows escape sequences as the escapes by 
default.

> If set to FRSX, it works perfectly.

It's the '-R' part that does the magic.

> Is this a bug ?

No, it's documented less behaviour. See "man less".

If you want to use "-M", you can mix it with R (or the other flags, for 
that matter) and use "LESS=MR" or "LESS=FRSXM" or whatever you like. But 
if you want less to pass through colors, you need that R there somewhere.

(You could use lower-case "r" too, but that's very dangerous, since it 
lets through _all_ escape sequences, including the ones that really screw 
up your terminal experience)

		Linus

Re: git diff odds

[Xavier Maillard]

   > Is this a bug ?

   No, it's documented less behaviour. See "man less".

Thank you very much for your explanations.

	Xavier
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