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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2011-08-17 22:04:23 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-19 15:51:34 -0700
commitdaa0c3d9717624a62ce669252be832db12658ec0 (patch)
tree523e3e1d6c1d94bff9632b5e8f3da8a2d3799a18 /wt-status.c
parente269eb7946d0a4ba6a4e175133b5479446ac04a5 (diff)
downloadgit-daa0c3d9717624a62ce669252be832db12658ec0.tar.gz
color: delay auto-color decision until point of use
When we read a color value either from a config file or from the command line, we use git_config_colorbool to convert it from the tristate always/never/auto into a single yes/no boolean value. This has some timing implications with respect to starting a pager. If we start (or decide not to start) the pager before checking the colorbool, everything is fine. Either isatty(1) will give us the right information, or we will properly check for pager_in_use(). However, if we decide to start a pager after we have checked the colorbool, things are not so simple. If stdout is a tty, then we will have already decided to use color. However, the user may also have configured color.pager not to use color with the pager. In this case, we need to actually turn off color. Unfortunately, the pager code has no idea which color variables were turned on (and there are many of them throughout the code, and they may even have been manipulated after the colorbool selection by something like "--color" on the command line). This bug can be seen any time a pager is started after config and command line options are checked. This has affected "git diff" since 89d07f7 (diff: don't run pager if user asked for a diff style exit code, 2007-08-12). It has also affect the log family since 1fda91b (Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case, 2010-08-24). This patch splits the notion of parsing a colorbool and actually checking the configuration. The "use_color" variables now have an additional possible value, GIT_COLOR_AUTO. Users of the variable should use the new "want_color()" wrapper, which will lazily determine and cache the auto-color decision. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'wt-status.c')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index da4bce5816..f2016dcdcc 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ static char default_wt_status_colors[][COLOR_MAXLEN] = {
static const char *color(int slot, struct wt_status *s)
{
- const char *c = s->use_color > 0 ? s->color_palette[slot] : "";
+ const char *c = "";
+ if (want_color(s->use_color))
+ c = s->color_palette[slot];
if (slot == WT_STATUS_ONBRANCH && color_is_nil(c))
c = s->color_palette[WT_STATUS_HEADER];
return c;