How to color the Git console

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I recently saw that the git console in Windows is colored  e g  Green for additions  red for deletions  etc  How do I color my git console like that   To install it  I used the command    sudo apt-get install git-core

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With Git 2 18  you have more control on how you want to specify colors in the console  The  git config  command uses separate options e g   --int    --bool   etc  to specify what type the caller wants the value to be interpreted as     A new  --type  lt typename gt   option has been introduced  which would make it cleaner to define new types   See commit fb0dc3b  18 Apr 2018   and commit 0a8950b  09 Apr 2018  by Taylor Blau  ttaylorr    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit e3e042b  08 May 2018        builtin config c  support --type  lt type gt  as preferred alias for -- lt type gt       git config has long allowed the ability for callers to provide a  type   specifier   which instructs git config to  1  ensure that incoming   values can be interpreted as that type  and  2  that outgoing values are   canonicalized under that type       In another series  we propose to extend this functionality with   --type color and --default to replace --get-color       However  we traditionally use --color to mean  colorize this output     instead of  this value should be treated as a color        Currently  git config does not support this kind of colorization  but   we should be careful to avoid squatting on this option too soon  so that   git config can support --color  in the traditional sense  in the   future  if that is desired       In this patch  we support --type  lt int bool bool-or-int     gt  in   addition to --int  --bool  and etc    This allows the aforementioned upcoming patch to support querying a color value with a default via --type color --default      without squandering --color       We retain the historic behavior of complaining when multiple    legacy-style -- lt type gt  flags are given  as well as extend this to   conflicting new-style --type  lt type gt  flags  --int --type int  and its   commutative pair  does not complain  but --bool --type int  and its   commutative pair  does    So before you had --bool and --int  now  documentation    --type  lt type gt        git config  will ensure that any input or output is valid under the given type constraint s   and will canonicalize outgoing values in  lt type gt  s     canonical form       Valid  lt type gt  s include           bool   canonicalize values as either  true  or  false      int   canonicalize values as simple decimal numbers  An optional suffix of    k    m   or  g  will cause the value to be multiplied by 1024  1048576  or 1073741824 upon input     bool-or-int   canonicalize according to either  bool  or  int   as described above     path   canonicalize by adding a leading   to the value of  HOME and  user to the home directory for the specified user  This specifier has no   effect when setting the value  but you can use git config section variable      from the command line to let your shell do the expansion      expiry-date   canonicalize by converting from a fixed or relative date-string to a timestamp  This specifier has no effect when setting the value       --bool   --int   --bool-or-int   --path   --expiry-date     Historical options for selecting a type specifier  Prefer instead  --type    see  above       Note that Git 2 22  Q2 2019  explains  git config --type color      is meant to replace  git config --get-color   but there is a slight difference that wasn t documented  which is now fixed   See commit cd8e759  05 Mar 2019  by Jeff King  peff    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit f6c75e3  20 Mar 2019        config  document --type color output is a complete line      Even though the newer  --type color  option to  git config  is meant   to be upward compatible with the traditional  --get-color  option    unlike the latter  its output is not an incomplete line that lack   the LF at the end    That makes it consistent with output of other types like  git config --type bool        Document it  as it sometimes surprises unsuspecting users    This now reads      --type color  --default  lt default gt   is preferred over --get-color    but note that --get-color will omit the trailing newline printed by   --type color       You can see git config --type bool used with Git 2 26  Q1 2020  to replace  git config --bool  calls in sample templates   See commit 81e3db4  19 Jan 2020  by Lucius Hu  lebensterben    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 7050624  30 Jan 2020        templates  fix deprecated type option --bool      Signed-off-by  Lucius Hu      The --bool option to git-config is marked as historical  and users are recommended to use --type bool instead    This commit replaces all occurrences of --bool in the templates       Also note that  no other deprecated type options are found  including --int  --bool-or-int  --path  or --expiry-date

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GIT uses colored output by default but on some system like as CentOS it is not enabled   You can enable it like this   git config --global color ui  true  git config --global color ui  false  git config --global color ui  auto    You can choose your required command from here     Here --global is optional to apply action for every repository in your system   If you want to apply coloring for current repository only then you can do something like this -    git config color ui  true

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Another way is to edit the  gitconfig  create one if not exist   for instance   vim    gitconfig   and then add    color    diff   auto   status   auto   branch   auto

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As noted by  VonC  color ui defaults to auto since Git 1 8 4    From the Unix  amp  Linux Stackexchange question How to colorize output of git  and the answer by  Evgeny   git config --global color ui auto      The color ui is a meta configuration that includes all the various color   configurations available with git commands  This is explained in-depth in git help config    So basically it s easier and more future proof than setting the different color   settings separately   In-depth explanation from the git config documentation      color ui  This variable determines the default value for variables such as color diff and color grep that control the use of color per command family  Its scope will expand as more commands learn configuration to set a default for the --color option  Set it to always if you want all output not intended for machine consumption to use color  to true or auto if you want such output to use color when written to the terminal  or to false or never if you prefer git commands not to use color unless enabled explicitly with some other configuration or the --color option

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Add to your  gitconfig file next code   color      ui   auto  color  quot branch quot       current   yellow reverse     local   yellow     remote   green  color  quot diff quot       meta   yellow bold     frag   magenta bold     old   red bold     new   green bold  color  quot status quot       added   yellow     changed   green     untracked   cyan

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Git automatically colors most of its output if you ask it to  You can get very specific about what you want colored and how  but to turn on all the default terminal coloring  set color ui to true   git config --global color ui true

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refer here  https   nathanhoad net how-to-colours-in-git   steps    Open    gitconfig for editing  vi    gitconfig Paste following code    color    ui   auto  color  branch     current   yellow reverse   local   yellow   remote   green  color  diff     meta   yellow bold   frag   magenta bold   old   red bold   new   green bold  color  status     added   yellow   changed   green   untracked   cyan  Save the file    Just change any file in your local repo and do  git status

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In Ubuntu or any other platform  yes  Windows too    starting git1 8 4  which was released 2013-08-23  you won t have to do anything      Many tutorials teach users to set  color ui  to  auto  as the first thing after you set  user name email  to introduce yourselves to Git  Now the variable defaults to  auto     So you will see colors by default

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Well  if you are not satisfied with the default setting  you can use ANSI escape code to help you set the color  and if you want to modify some text  you can write bash to help you  see as below  Eaxmplae    gitconfig   alias      st-color    quot  f               echo -n -e    033 38 2 255 0 01m  033 4m             git status -s   grep   D              sed -e  s     DELETE                echo -n -e    033 m                       echo -n -e    033 48 2 128 128 128m             echo -n -e    033 38 2 0 255 01m             git status -s   grep    AM               sed -e  s     NEW OR MODIFY                echo -n -e    033 m                       echo -n -e    033 38 2 255 0 255m             echo Rename            git status -s   grep  R               sed -e  s                    echo -n -e    033 m            f quot   demo  Explanation  you can write the long script on  gitconfig use the syntax as below   alias      your-cmd    f                        f quot    echo -n -e   see more echo   -n   Do not output a trailing newline  -e Enable interpretation of the following backslash-escaped     033 38 2 255 0 0m  033 4m  see more SGR parameters     033 38 2 255 0 0m   38 mean fore color  255 0 0   Red   r g b   033 4m   underline   grep    The grep command is used to search text   sed -e  s be replace string new string    replace string to new string

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For example see https   web archive org web 20080506194329 http   www arthurkoziel com 2008 05 02 git-configuration   The interesting part is     Colorized output   git config --global color branch auto git config --global color diff auto git config --global color interactive auto git config --global color status auto

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In your    gitconfig file  simply add this    color    ui   auto   It takes care of all your git commands

[git] How to color the Git console?

`builtin/config.c`: support `--type=<type>` as preferred alias for `--<type>`

`config`: document `--type=color` output is a complete line

`templates`: fix deprecated type option `--bool`

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