Re: BUG: %+ format placeholder and colors

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 23 2022, Raphael Bauer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am not familiar with using mailing list for bug tracking. I already
> reported this bug, but got no answer, so I wanted to mention it again.

There was my answer at
https://lore.kernel.org/git/220222.865yp7aj6z.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
and your reply at
https://lore.kernel.org/git/6f0d1c12-4cf8-bbdd-96d4-eae99317e2e4@pdev.de/;
Perhaps not the answer you wanted, but not "no answer"...

> * What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> git log --pretty=format:'%h%Cred%+d test' --graph
>
> This also happens with a PAGER=cat environment, just to preclude this
> is related to the pager.

This example also renders differently under PAGER=cat for me. I.e. it's
the pager that's resetting the colors, but maybe I'm not understanding
the subtlety here...

> * What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> A graph listing of commit hashes and, if ref names for this commit
> exist, a second line.
> This line should be colored in red and contain the ref names as well
> as the string 'test'.
> In the case of no refs, the string 'test' should appear in line with
> the commit hash, also in red.
>
> * What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> In case of ref names / a second line, the color is missing completely.
> The colors work correctly for the single line case (when no ref names
> are available).
>
> * What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
> The %+d placeholder inserts newlines if the string is non-empty, but
> in doing so, resets any coloring information.
> This is demonstrated by the string 'test' which should always show in
> red, but does so only if %+d is not expanded.
> This makes it currently impossible to color anything with the %+
> placeholder.

At least for me a screenshot & a link to a repo you expect to run this
on would really help, since the output is very different depending on
branch topology, ref names etc.