Package: git
Version: 1:1.8.4.3-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Since upstream has made color.ui=auto the default, my git experience has
suffered. I use lv as my preferred pager and somehow that doesn't jive
with what the various git commands feed it. Pagination itself works but
instead of colors I get to see control codes like below (partial output
of git diff):
^[[1mdiff --git a/.mailfilter b/.mailfilter^[[m
^[[1mindex aa4f0b2..17e113e 100644^[[m
^[[1m--- a/.mailfilter^[[m
^[[1m+++ b/.mailfilter^[[m
^[[36m@@ -1,11 +1,58 @@^[[m
Using GIT_PAGER=more or GIT_PAGER=less works fine and show paginated,
colored output. Nice!
I am loathe to switch to less though, as I have to deal with files in a
number of different encodings at the same time. The lv pager does a
good job at automatically detecting those on the fly, less does not.
I am not sure what would be the best approach to fix this. The pager
command is there for a purpose and if git would silently change to a
different one, I would certainly be surprised (and depending on the
diff, confused as to why changes don't look as expected).
Come to think of this, you might even argue it is something that ought
to be fixed in lv (but I don't know if that's even possible).
I guess for now I'll just turn off color.ui ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages git depends on:
ii git-man 1:1.8.4.3-1
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.33.0-1
ii liberror-perl 0.17-1.1
ii libexpat1 2.1.0-4
ii libpcre3 1:8.31-2
ii perl-modules 5.18.1-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
Versions of packages git recommends:
ii less 458-2
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:6.4p1-1
ii patch 2.7.1-4
ii rsync 3.1.0-2
Versions of packages git suggests:
ii gettext-base 0.18.3.1-1
pn git-arch <none>
pn git-bzr <none>
ii git-cvs 1:1.8.4.3-1
pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none>
pn git-doc <none>
ii git-el 1:1.8.4.3-1
ii git-email 1:1.8.4.3-1
ii git-gui 1:1.8.4.3-1
ii git-svn 1:1.8.4.3-1
ii gitk 1:1.8.4.3-1
pn gitweb <none>
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Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom
http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
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