From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rogan Dawes Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Need your help with MinGW Issue 17: --color options don't work (produce garbage) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:08:27 +0200 Message-ID: <46CAF1DB.3080305@dawes.za.net> References: <3f4fd2640708150032l7441b285mc2cc9e22702bce21@mail.gmail.com> <46C36E7C.1080501@dawes.za.net> <7vsl6ko51b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Reece Dunn , msysGit , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 21 16:09:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INUQF-0001fx-Br for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:09:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760340AbXHUOJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760253AbXHUOJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:23 -0400 Received: from sd-green-bigip-145.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.145]:47564 "EHLO spunkymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760340AbXHUOJW (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:22 -0400 Received: from [192.168.201.100] (dsl-146-25-160.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.25.160]) by spunkymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2864AFFDD8; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:09:01 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <7vsl6ko51b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Rogan Dawes writes: > >> 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. > > Heh, that almost suggests that the native Windows command.com > support can disable the color without upsetting anybody ;-) > Following my other comment in this regard, another reason that colour in the cmd line tools is less important, is because my impression of the intent of the Windows port (end goal, that is), is that the user will be able to use a Windows GUI front-end to do whatever it is they want to. And so the GUI front-end will be responsible for implementing the color anyway, most likely through pattern matching and a state machine. Regards, Rogan