Re: Colorize matches for git log --grep=pattern?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 11:57:14AM +0100, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> is there a way to colorize / highlight the pattern matched by
> 
>     git log -E -i --grep=pattern
> 
> in the console output?

I don't think so. The grep code _does_ know about colorizing matches
(which is why "git grep --color" works), but for the output code path
for commit messages doesn't use grep at all (it couldn't, because we're
not just showing the relevant lines but selecting the whole commit).

So I think it would have to be reimplemented separately.

The best workaround I could come up with is passing the output through a
highlighting script:

  git log --grep=foo --color |
  perl -pe 's/foo/\x1b[1;31m$&\x1b[m/' |
  less

Pretty hacky.

-Peff