Mark Hansen's Blog

By default, git doesn’t use color. However, you can enable color for interactive use:

$ git config --global --add color.ui true

This adds a line to your ~/.gitconfig file, enabling colors output for all git operations on all repositories.

Awesome! Now git-diff will shine in radiant reds and greens, and it’ll be oh-so-easy to see what’s changed. git-branch will show your current branch in green, git-status will show added files in green and deleted files in red.

And git’s smart enough to check if the output is going to the terminal or to a pipe, where color codes could break things. Git only sends color output to the terminal, where your eyes can enjoy it. I can’t see any reason not to enable color in git. Enjoy!

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