Aha, I found this in my ~/.gitconfig

[color]
     ui = auto


And it does what I want when I add it to the other machines.

Many thanks


On 12/04/2013 12:58, Ilia Akgaev wrote:
> AFAIK colored git output is generated from values you put into your 
> ~/.gitconfig file.
> For git status you should use something like
>   
> [color "status"]
>      added = yellow
>      changed = green
>      untracked = cyan
>
> Ilia
>
> On Apr 12, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Peter Flood <i...@whywouldwe.com> wrote:
>
>> On my machine (osx) I get coloured output when I run `git status` (local
>> changes are red and staged changes are green), when I ssh into ubuntu
>> machines I get a coloured prompt and coloured output when I run `ls -la`
>> but not for `git status`. Anyone know how to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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