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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Scott Baker <bakers@canbytel.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] docs: describe ANSI 256-color mode
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:15:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141120151531.GA23680@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141120151418.GA23607@peff.net>

Our color specifications have supported the 256-color ANSI
extension for years, but we never documented it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
I have no clue which terminals do and don't support this. I would hope
the answer is "everything" by now, but I have seen some pretty awful
terminal emulators in my time.

 Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9220725..f615a5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -839,6 +839,10 @@ accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`,
 `blink` and `reverse`.  The first color given is the foreground; the
 second is the background.  The position of the attribute, if any,
 doesn't matter.
++
+Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between
+0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all
+terminals may support this).
 
 color.diff::
 	Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches.
-- 
2.2.0.rc2.402.g4519813

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-20 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5462907B.1050207@canbytel.com>
2014-11-12  7:56 ` diff-highlight highlight words? Jeff King
2014-11-12 17:59   ` Scott Baker
2014-11-20 15:14     ` [PATCH 0/7] color fixes and configurable diff-highlight Jeff King
2014-11-20 15:15       ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-11-20 15:15       ` [PATCH 2/7] config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1" Jeff King
2014-11-20 15:16       ` [PATCH 3/7] t4026: test "normal" color Jeff King
2014-11-20 18:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-20 19:00           ` Jeff King
2014-11-20 15:17       ` [PATCH 4/7] parse_color: refactor color storage Jeff King
2014-11-20 19:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-09 20:14         ` Johannes Sixt
2014-12-09 20:21           ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 20:52             ` Johannes Sixt
2014-12-09 21:01               ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 20:56           ` Eric Sunshine
2014-11-20 15:25       ` [PATCH 5/7] parse_color: support 24-bit RGB values Jeff King
2014-11-20 19:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-20 20:10           ` Jeff King
2014-11-20 20:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-20 15:25       ` [PATCH 6/7] parse_color: recognize "no$foo" to clear the $foo attribute Jeff King
2014-11-20 19:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-20 15:29       ` [PATCH 7/7] diff-highlight: allow configurable colors Jeff King

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