From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Need your help with MinGW Issue 17: --color options
   don't work (produce garbage)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:22:04 +0200
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hmm.  Somehow I doubt that this hack works _outside_ of the Windows 
> console.  I.e. if you call git in rxvt, it will fail, if you ssh into 
> Windows, it will fail.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
> 

I'd say that since Windows doesn't have the concept of terminfo or 
terminal types, and since SSH is mostly only supported through 
cygwin-style "hacks", (or F-Secure, but I have no experience with that) 
that we should not be _too_ concerned about that.

Users that *do* need to use rxvt or SSH should simply disable the color 
mode, or alternatively, use the cygwin version. Color, while useful, is 
hardly critical functionality.

My R0.02.

Regards,

Rogan