On 07/23, Jacob Keller wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Orgad Shaneh <org...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When git grep --color=always is used, and the output is redirected to > > a file or a pipe, results inside submodules are not colored. Results > > in the supermodule are colored correctly. > > > > - Orgad > > This occurs because color isn't passed to the recursive grep submodule > process we launch. It might be fixed if/when we switch to using the > repository object to run grep in-process. We could also patch grep to > pass the color option into the submodule.
This is one of the many downsides to the multi-process approach as it is very easy to miss passing configuration like '--color' down to the submodules. As Jacob pointed out this problem is solved when the recursion is handled in-process. The series to implement this is currently under-review. The latest version of the patch series you can find here (https://public-inbox.org/git/20170718190527.78049-1-bmw...@google.com/) and it looks like Junio has it as a branch on github at (https://github.com/gitster/git/tree/bw/grep-recurse-submodules). -- Brandon Williams
