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Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:40:20 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Marc Branchaud Cc: "brian m. carlson" , Jeff King , Yaakov Smith , "git@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: General output formatting In-Reply-To: <18ed50b3-e5a4-43b3-a543-f9a3d2c309e6@xiplink.com> (Marc Branchaud's message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:14:42 -0500") References: <20250226073822.GA21138@coredump.intra.peff.net> <3a58720f-a572-4e3a-bed1-cc7e8f46e3c7@xiplink.com> <18ed50b3-e5a4-43b3-a543-f9a3d2c309e6@xiplink.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:40:19 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Marc Branchaud writes: > I have no opinion on exactly how to "butcher" the output for a > terminal. I guess it depends on how well Git wants to support > copy/paste of its output. Yup, that is a fine balancing act. Given the current behaviour, $ cat .git/config [core] somevalue = "true\b\b\b\bfalse" $ git config --local --list core.somevalue=false supporting copy-paste may not be such a good thing to do, though ;-)