terminal colors outside of chroot

[Robert Ginda]

With the new workflow my diffs show up in pretty colors inside the
chroot, but outside the chroot things don't work so well. Instead of
colors, I see the raw escape codes. I use the same terminal inside
and outside, bash in both instances, and I even use a prompt with VT
colors outside the chroot.

So, does anyone know why diff colors would work inside the chroot, but
not outside?

Rob.

[Chris Sosa]

The trick is probably in your /etc/bash/bashrc in your chroot. I
sourced this file from outside of my chroot and got the same pretty
colors from within my chroot.

-Sosa

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[Bill Richardson]

It's a git thing. Run "git config --global --list" and you'll probably see something like this:

color.branch=always

color.ui=always

color.diff=always

If you change the settings to "auto" instead "always", it should drop the pretty colors when the output isn't to a terminal.

If you like the pretty colors and want to make it show up properly, you'll need to pass the right args to your pager, using something like

export PAGER='less -R'

or, if you invoke less directly ("git diff | less"), then make that a default arg:

export LESS='-R'

Bill

[Robert Ginda]

Aha, that did it, thanks Bill.

Rob.