Coloured diff/log by default

[Jelmer Vernooij]

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Hi Daniel,

Daniel Clemente wrote:
> I'm wondering why, if Bazaar is meant to be usable, doesn't it default to the nicest output formats.
>
> 1.  „added lines“=green  and „removed lines“=red  makes a diff easier and faster to understand.
> 
>   So: why isn't „bzr diff“ an alias to „bzr cdiff“?
+1 in general, but cdiff needs better color assignments. The current
ones e.g. show the contents of diffs in bright grey on white in my terminal.

Does cdiff still only work on *nix, or also on Windows these days?

> 2. But we also probably want „bzr cdiff >file.patch“ NOT to write colour codes to the file… unless you specify „bzr cdiff --color=always >file“, of course. Bzr can already detect if there's a terminal (bug 242115).
> 
>   Now, --color=always is the default. There's also --color=auto and --color=never
> 
>   Why isn't --color=auto the default instead of „always“?
>
> 
> 3. „log“ can also use a different color for headers. 
> 
> 4. „bzr vis“ should always show coloured output in diffs
This already happens if you have the right packages installed
(gtksourceview IIRC).

> PS: these four suggestions are for instance what git does, and it feels nicer in this way
Git doesn't color anything by default, at least not in the text UI. Do
you perhaps have custom configuration to enable this?

Cheers,

Jelmer
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