git color in commit editor

git color in commit editor

[Pavan Savoy]

I am not sure, If this is a right list, Is there a git users mailing
list too somewhere out there ?
Anyway the question is simple,

I have git version git version 1.5.6.3, on 1 system and get the colors
right during a git commit (commit editor being vim..)
On another machine with same vim version and same gitconfig and pretty
much all the same settings except that the
git version is git version 1.6.3.3, I don't have color in the commit editor...

Moving to newer GIT versions didn't help either...
What am I missing?


regards,
Pavan

Re: git color in commit editor

[Thomas Rast]

Pavan Savoy wrote:
> On another machine with same vim version and same gitconfig and pretty
> much all the same settings except that the
> git version is git version 1.6.3.3, I don't have color in the commit editor...
> 
> Moving to newer GIT versions didn't help either...
> What am I missing?

That's squarely in vim's domain, git does not (and cannot) impose any
colors on the editor.  So you need to configure vim on the second
machine for the highlighting.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

Re: git color in commit editor

[Matthijs Kooijman]

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Hey Pavan,

> I have git version git version 1.5.6.3, on 1 system and get the colors
> right during a git commit (commit editor being vim..)
> On another machine with same vim version and same gitconfig and pretty
> much all the same settings except that the
> git version is git version 1.6.3.3, I don't have color in the commit editor...
Try the ":syntax on" command in your vim (without the quotes, with the
colon).

You can put it in your ~/.vimrc file as well (without the colon there).

Gr.

Matthijs

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Re: git color in commit editor

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 07:42, Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@sify.com> wrote:
> I have git version git version 1.5.6.3, on 1 system and get the colors
> right during a git commit (commit editor being vim..)

FWIW here's how to get those colors under Emacs:
https://github.com/rafl/git-commit-mode

Re: git color in commit editor

[Pavan Savoy]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 07:42, Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@sify.com> wrote:
>> I have git version git version 1.5.6.3, on 1 system and get the colors
>> right during a git commit (commit editor being vim..)
>
> FWIW here's how to get those colors under Emacs:
> https://github.com/rafl/git-commit-mode
>

Thanks, I do have syntax on in my vimrc, as I mentioned, I also have colors in
vim for .c files on both machines...
The only differences being git versions, also what syntax or color
format would vim get for git and from where?

Re: git color in commit editor

[Jonathan Nieder]

Pavan Savoy wrote:

> Thanks, I do have syntax on in my vimrc, as I mentioned, I also have colors in
> vim for .c files on both machines...
> The only differences being git versions, also what syntax or color
> format would vim get for git and from where?

$ find /usr/share/vim -name git\*
/usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/gitconfig.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/gitsendemail.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/gitrebase.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/gitcommit.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/git.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/indent/gitconfig.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/gitconfig.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/gitsendemail.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/gitrebase.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/gitcommit.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/git.vim

":help :syn-files" explains how to use them.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan