Closed nebbish closed 4 months ago
You can force it on a per-command basis with :Git -c color.diff=always hlag
. I'm pushing a change that will let you put the -c color.diff=always
inside the alias itself, so that :Git hlag
can do what you desire.
I know that Fugitive works hard behind the scenes to forcibly disable colors -- even for users with
color.ui=always
in their global config.
I think per-alias is probably appropriate for your use case, but I would be open to dialing this back a bit if there was a compelling reason. The reason it was added is because true
used to be an alias for always
, which meant many users had it enabled without understanding the implications, resulting in a bad out-of-the-box experience for Fugitive.
Oh, I did not think to include the -c
option with the fugitive command. That worked great, and is a good solution for me 😄.
I believe in: simple things should be simple, and hard things should be doable. And this make the hard thing doable 😃.
I use VIM mappings to run my fugitive commands. I will just add that to my own mappings to get the color I am after. I am not ready to ask that the defaults should change for this.
I have a couple of "log" related aliases for creating "pretty" log output with the graph lines. When I run them in a command window (or even a VIM terminal window) the lines are colored.
In the screenshot, I opened a Gvim right in the plugin folder (%userprofile%.vim\bundle\vim-fugitive). Also I stashed something just to "create a graph" for Git to output. My personal alias,
hlag
, is:log --graph --pretty=with-16-date --all --date=human --decorate
The screenshot is from:
Then in the term:
I know that Fugitive works hard behind the scenes to forcibly disable colors -- even for users with
color.ui=always
in their global config.My current work involves a repository with many active threads of development, and it is a big repo. I am very interested in getting the GIT log output, with colorized graph lines into a buffer so I can jump around, mentally following our branching work -- but only with the help of colors.
(as of now... no way am I jumping 3 page-up(s), and trusting 3rd-from-left is still the same thread of commits)
PS: I think it would be just fine if the color codes came into the buffer raw (e.g.
^[[#m
). I have my own way to convert them to syntax highlighting (using this plugin).