On 08/30/2010 05:44 PM, Octavian Voicu wrote:
1. You set color.ui to always and you're using less or another pager
that doesn't support color. You don't need to use a pager in git diff.
Normally, if you set color.ui to auto (or true), then color escape
sequences are only enabled when output is a terminal (not a pipe or
file).
Instead of `git diff | less' just use `git diff'. If you really want
to use less, `git diff | less -r' should work with colors (-r enables
interpreting color escape codes in less).
Git automatically invokes a pager, as given by your 'core.pager' setting
(see 'man git-config'). It defaults to 'less'. If you're not getting
color, check your LESS environment variable. Unset it to use Git's
default settings (which should work with color escape sequences), or set
it to something like "-R". See 'man less' for more options, obviously.
If the above all seems correct, try a different or newer terminal
emulator to help diagnose the problem.
Andrew
