On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 11:57:14AM +0100, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > is there a way to colorize / highlight the pattern matched by > > git log -E -i --grep=pattern > > in the console output?
I don't think so. The grep code _does_ know about colorizing matches (which is why "git grep --color" works), but for the output code path for commit messages doesn't use grep at all (it couldn't, because we're not just showing the relevant lines but selecting the whole commit). So I think it would have to be reimplemented separately. The best workaround I could come up with is passing the output through a highlighting script: git log --grep=foo --color | perl -pe 's/foo/\x1b[1;31m$&\x1b[m/' | less Pretty hacky. -Peff
