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Re: Updated GCC vs Clang diagnostics
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.