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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to `git status' without scrambling modified with new, etc
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 16:24:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX7Q36rFiO9SwBCzM2M3ae=vOPJ2dfaVQ6=geZLgkLAuWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bmr7xuy9.fsf@local.lan>

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> This is probably what everyone sees:
>
> When I run `git status'; I see  modified and newfiles scrambled together
>
> Is there a trick or technique to make that output show each category
> separately?
>
> Or do folks just a throw a `sort' in there (git status|sort) and lose
> the color ouput?

If you set color.ui=auto it'll disable coloring when it detects that
the output isn't to a terminal, i.e. being piped.

It sounds like you want:

    git -c color.ui=always status --short|sort

But there's no native option to sort the status output, but that'll do
it for you.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-05 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-05 14:02 How to `git status' without scrambling modified with new, etc Harry Putnam
2017-05-05 14:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2017-05-05 21:06   ` Samuel Lijin
2017-05-09 19:42     ` Harry Putnam

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