adding `auto,` at the beginning will emit color only when colors are
enabled for log output (by `color.diff`, `color.ui`, or `--color`, and
respecting the `auto` settings of the former if we are going to a
- terminal)
+ terminal). `auto` alone (i.e. `%C(auto)`) will turn on auto coloring
+ on the next placeholders until the color is switched again.
- '%m': left, right or boundary mark
- '%n': newline
- '%%': a raw '%'
char *message;
char *commit_encoding;
size_t width, indent1, indent2;
+ int auto_color;
/* These offsets are relative to the start of the commit message. */
struct chunk author;
/* these are independent of the commit */
switch (placeholder[0]) {
case 'C':
- return parse_color(sb, placeholder, c);
+ if (!prefixcmp(placeholder + 1, "(auto)")) {
+ c->auto_color = 1;
+ return 7; /* consumed 7 bytes, "C(auto)" */
+ } else {
+ int ret = parse_color(sb, placeholder, c);
+ if (ret)
+ c->auto_color = 0;
+ /*
+ * Otherwise, we decided to treat %C<unknown>
+ * as a literal string, and the previous
+ * %C(auto) is still valid.
+ */
+ return ret;
+ }
case 'n': /* newline */
strbuf_addch(sb, '\n');
return 1;
switch (placeholder[0]) {
case 'H': /* commit hash */
+ strbuf_addstr(sb, diff_get_color(c->auto_color, DIFF_COMMIT));
strbuf_addstr(sb, sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
+ strbuf_addstr(sb, diff_get_color(c->auto_color, DIFF_RESET));
return 1;
case 'h': /* abbreviated commit hash */
- if (add_again(sb, &c->abbrev_commit_hash))
+ strbuf_addstr(sb, diff_get_color(c->auto_color, DIFF_COMMIT));
+ if (add_again(sb, &c->abbrev_commit_hash)) {
+ strbuf_addstr(sb, diff_get_color(c->auto_color, DIFF_RESET));
return 1;
+ }
strbuf_addstr(sb, find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.sha1,
c->pretty_ctx->abbrev));
+ strbuf_addstr(sb, diff_get_color(c->auto_color, DIFF_RESET));
c->abbrev_commit_hash.len = sb->len - c->abbrev_commit_hash.off;
return 1;
case 'T': /* tree hash */
return 1;
case 'd':
load_ref_decorations(DECORATE_SHORT_REFS);
- format_decorations(sb, commit, 0);
+ format_decorations(sb, commit, c->auto_color);
return 1;
case 'g': /* reflog info */
switch(placeholder[1]) {