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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
To: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jan Hudec" <bulb@ucw.cz>, "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Configuration overrides via environment variable
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:11:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20801281511md7bdeeme383a140fdc854ec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tzkx8smg.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Jan 29, 2008 9:58 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:08:10 +1100, David Symonds wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm using Git in some scripts, and wanted to get its colorised output
> > > even when it is not going to a tty. I don't want to permanently change
> > > ~/.gitconfig or the per-repo config; I just want to set color.status
> > > (and perhaps others) to "always" for a one-off run. I suppose I could
> > > munge the config files, storing the previous value and restoring it
> > > later, but that's messy.
>
> Cannot you just use --color option?

My version of Git (1.5.3.8) doesn't have a --color option for
git-status, and I can't find support for it in 'next', either. It
would be ideal if there was a --color option, though.


Dave.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28  1:08 Configuration overrides via environment variable David Symonds
2008-01-28 20:58 ` Jan Hudec
2008-01-28 22:58   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-28 23:11     ` David Symonds [this message]

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