LKBEN11188: Howto configure colors in git
LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 0 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False
Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Symptom
You need to change your colors for status, commit, checkout and branch
Cause
none
Solution
To configure git so you will see colors you use the following commands:
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.interactive auto
This will create or change your git configuration file "~/.gitconfig" in your home drive with the following contents:
[color]
diff = auto
status = auto
branch = auto
interactive = auto
About the Author
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.