[PATCH] color: add support for the 'export' command

[Martin Geisler]

Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com> writes:

> On 6 Dec 2009, at 16:02, Gilles Moris wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 05 December 2009 09:07:19 am Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen 
>> wrote:
>>> color: add support for the 'export' command.
>> 
>> I am not sure I like the idea: export is for ... export The
>> possibility to have mangled escape sequences in exports is not
>> something desirable for me, even if it's in the tty case only. We
>> already have log -p and diff colorized. Isn't that sufficient ?
>> What's the use case ?
>
> Personally, I use it for reviewing patches prior to sending them to
> the list. I find that colorising ‘export’ makes its output much more
> readable, and metadata and message stand out much more than ‘log -p’.
> There's also comfort; there just might be something in the patch that
> ‘log -p’ doesn't show…

What should that be?

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