bug#51262: [PATCH] Don't use color escape sequences in `vc-git-expanded-log-entry'

[Jan Synáček]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:33 AM Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
>
> ...
> > This is what I see on my system (I hope that gmail doesn't remove the 
> > escapes):
> >
> > *  (HEAD -> master)520684e..: Jan Synacek 2021-10-19 first commit
> >  ^[[33mcommit 520684e773918234874a35738b094ca39b63a822^[ [m
> > Author: Jan Synacek <jan.synacek@gmail.com>
> > Date:   Tue Oct 19 10:04:02 2021 +0200
> >
> >   first commit
>
> Here, I actually see the colours, and no escape sequences.

Colors as in interpreted escape sequences?

> The question is what is different in our setups.  Could you post the
> output of M-x report-emacs-bug?  Is there anything in your ~/.gitconfig
> that could be causing this?
>
> > It might be dependent on git configuration, but I think it's safe to assume 
> > that
> > there might be escape sequences and simply use --no-color. And that's what
> > my patch does.
>
> I agree that you shouldn't need to see those escape sequences, but it
> would be better if we could narrow it down so we don't have to remove
> colours for everyone.  The first step is to try to figure out what it is
> that makes you see control sequences where I get colours.

It looks like the following part of my ~/.gitconfig triggers the issue:
...
[color]
    ui = always
...

Here's the outupt of report-emacs-bug:

In GNU Emacs 28.0.60 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
3.24.30, cairo version 1.17.4)
 of 2021-10-19 built on jsynacek-home
Repository revision: 66fbd5527335cb3136b65ed3644e5a8b151add32
Repository branch: emacs-28
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