Coloring

[Irving Rabin <irving@edmodo.com>]

Folks, I am reporting an issue with coloring of the output of Git
commands, like status, diff, etc.

Specifically, if the field is supposed to be white, it doesn't mean it
should be literally 0xFFFFFF. It should be the color that I have
configured as White color for my console emulator.

I like light-screen terminals, and I configure my ANSI colors in the
way that they are clearly visible on the background and clearly
distinct between themselves. In my terminal settings background is
light-yellow, Black is black, Yellow is brown, Red is dark red,
Magenta is purple and White is dark gray. I set it once and I can use
it everywhere - all Unix commands work correctly, I can edit
highlighted source code in Vim, and all my color settings are
respected.

However Git behaves differently. When I run git diff, some of the
output is literally white on light yellow background. It is like "we
know what is White, so we ignore your settings". And it is quite
irritating.

Is there a way to make Git respect terminal settings and not to
override them with absolute colors? If so, please advise. If not, then
I guess it is a bug to fix, right?

Thanks,
Irving Rabin
Software Developer @Edmodo
408-242-1299