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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Configuration overrides via environment variable
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:11:05 +1100
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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.