On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Peter Harris wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote: > > > > > > > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:05, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I thought "less" worked already? > > > > > > > > Not so. less on CMD does not show colors. :-( > > > > > > Something does not compute here. I just tried, on Windows XP, in an > > > msysGit window (created by /share/msysGit/add-shortcut.tcl): > > > > > > $ git log --color > > > > > > and guess what: I saw colour! Is that something _you_ did? > > > > We're using cmd, you're using sh. > > > > > I thought it was a by-product of using less? > > > > I suspect it's a by-product of using sh. > > I see. But then it is funny that non-paged text is not coloured, no?
Yes. Very strange. It looks like msys-based apps get color if they're running under an msys shell. It looks like git is compiled as a mingw application, not an msys application. Given that perl, less, and other parts of the msysGit distribution are msys-based, does it make sense to link git with msys? Peter Harris
