Is there a way to save the colored output from a git show?
I saw the post about using a different editor. But that is a lot more than what I'm trying to do. I just want to capture a report that is visually easy to read.
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Prefix your git command like so
git -c color.status=always
And colour will always be produced
Edit 2023:
Above had not worked, but below had:
if you want color codes in your redirected output, you can instead pass a --color flag to the Git command to force it to use color codes
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration
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You could use VIm with syntax highlight and the TOhtml command.
git show COMMIT:FILE.abc | vim -c "set filetype=abc" -c "TOhtml" -c "x git_show.html" -c "qa!" -
Where:
- FILE.abc is the file which will be shown in the past version defined by COMMIT hash code
Note:
- The html result file will be named git_show.html and will be located in the current folder.
- You must pass the correct filetype replacing abc to another file extension, like cpp or java.
Dissecting this long piped command:
set filetype=abc : activates the syntax highlight conforming to the abc type
TOhtml : makes VIm export the highlighted opened file to a HTML
x git_show.html : x acts like wq, saving the file as git_show.html and then closing the current buffer.
qa! : force VIm to exit without saving anything else
- (trailing) : makes VIm read from stdin
