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I like colorized diffs, but let's face it, those particular color choices will make most people decide to pick out their eyes with a fondue fork. And that's not good. Digging in your eye-sockets with a fondue fork is strictly considered to be bad for your health, and seven out of nine optometrists are dead set against the practice.

So in order to avoid a lot of blind git users, please apply this patch.

-- Linus Torvalds


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use 256 colors

Posted Jul 6, 2006 21:57 UTC (Thu) by dann (subscriber, #11621) [Link]

The color output would look much nicer if it would use 256 colors. Currently
xterm, rxvt, gnome-terminal (using vte-0.13+), konsole (in CVS) and even putty
support 256 colors. So applications can start taking advantage of the general
availability of 256 color terminals to improve the way their output looks...

Quote of the week

Posted Jul 7, 2006 16:22 UTC (Fri) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246) [Link]

Ok... so those 2 out of 9 optometrists... Opportunists, or future Hannibal Lectors?

Quote of the week

Posted Jul 13, 2006 21:35 UTC (Thu) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link]

There's an exciting new business opportunity in open-source laser assisted fondue-fork occular terminal wavefront surgery.

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