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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-03-04 11:07:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-03-04 11:42:35 -0800 |
| commit | 5ee875852e3cb41c21c2e89a636fc1e40c4012b1 (patch) | |
| tree | ad5154ff1c04d17e8d9f6586190a174ff794f688 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | Documentation/config.txt: simplify boolean description in the syntax section (diff) | |
| download | tgif-5ee875852e3cb41c21c2e89a636fc1e40c4012b1.tar.xz | |
log --decorate: do not leak "commit" color into the next item
In "git log --decorate", you would see the commit header like this:
commit ... (HEAD, jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color)
where "commit ... (" is painted in color.diff.commit, "HEAD" in
color.decorate.head, ", " in color.diff.commit, the branch name in
color.decorate.branch and then closing ")" in color.diff.commit.
If you wanted to paint the HEAD and local branch name in the same
color as the body text (perhaps because cyan and green are too faint
on a black-on-white terminal to be readable), you would not want to
have to say
[color "decorate"]
head = black
branch = black
because that you would not be able to reuse same configuration on a
white-on-black terminal. You would naively expect
[color "decorate"]
head = normal
branch = normal
to work, but unfortunately it does not. It paints the string "HEAD"
and the branch name in the same color as the opening parenthesis or
comma between the decoration elements. This is because the code
forgets to reset the color after printing the "prefix" in its own
color.
It theoretically is possible that some people were expecting and
relying on that the attribute set as the "diff.commit" color, which
is used to draw these opening parenthesis and inter-item comma, is
inherited by the drawing of branch names, but it is not how the
coloring works everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f1cf571fcd..6d65033e44 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ color:: `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, doesn't matter. ++ +The attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item +in the colored output, so setting color.decorate.branch to `black` +will paint that branch name in a plain `black`, even if the previous +thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the +list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be +painted with `bold` or some other attribute. Variables |