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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-11-27 22:41:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-11-28 17:33:17 -0800 |
| commit | 9ce0352258a421b654b5db145a42d07cbaef416c (patch) | |
| tree | ed7112047dfac166f212d03305cc2ee4ef5da24a /Documentation | |
| parent | 57f2b8424ade734550731392e90b8f738d478e02 (diff) | |
| download | git-9ce0352258a421b654b5db145a42d07cbaef416c.tar.gz | |
git-config --get-color: get configured color
This new option allows scripts to grab color setting from the user
configuration, translated to ANSI color escape sequence.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-config.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index a592b61e2f..7640450787 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git-config' [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name 'git-config' [<file-option>] --remove-section name 'git-config' [<file-option>] [-z|--null] -l | --list +'git-config' [<file-option>] --get-color name [default] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -134,6 +135,12 @@ See also <<FILES>>. output without getting confused e.g. by values that contain line breaks. +--get-color name default:: + + Find the color configured for `name` (e.g. `color.diff.new`) and + output it as the ANSI color escape sequence to the standard + output. The optional `default` parameter is used instead, if + there is no color configured for `name`. [[FILES]] FILES @@ -292,6 +299,15 @@ To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use % git config core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com' ------------ +An example to use customized color from the configuration in your +script: + +------------ +#!/bin/sh +WS=$(git config --get-color color.diff.whitespace "blue reverse") +RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset") +echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}" +------------ include::config.txt[] |