On 13 April 2012 02:40, Joe Buck wrote: > I'm not interested in color output, and would turn it off if it were > implemented (the escape sequences would just mess things up when capturing > compiler output in log files).
There's no reason it would have to do that. Git does a great job of colouring output automatically when printing to a terminal but not when redirected to a file or pipe. It also automatically pipes output through a pager when it won't fit on the screen, and because it runs the pager internally it still knows the final output is a terminal and so outputs in colour.
