Coloured diff/log by default

[Daniel Clemente]

El dj, mai 14 2009, Russ Brown va escriure:
>>    I submitted a bug to track this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/376594
>>
>>    I will try to do a first patch next week; if anyone does it before, much better.
>>
>
> Good luck with this, but to avoid wasting time try to avoid making the same
> mistakes that I did:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/45055
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/45340
>

  Thanks. Your goals:
>
>  1. A common, consistent way for the user to enable/disable coloured
>    output for any command (i.e. color=always/auto/never)
>  2. A common library for colouring up terminal output that is cross
>     platform (including win32), has capability detection, and is
>     available to all commands and plugins to use
>  3. A common, consistent way for users to customise the colours used for
>     all commands.
> 

  are maybe too ambitious, at least for me. I think a first step is to include just cdiff's code into diff. Other commands, customization, interoperability, etc. will come after that.