How to color the Git console?

Question

I recently saw that the git console in Windows is colored, e.g. Green for additions, red for deletions, etc. How do I color my git console like tha

Answer 1

In Ubuntu or any other platform (yes, Windows too!); starting git1.8.4, which was released 2013-08-23, you won't have to do anything:

Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".

So you will see colors by default.

Answer 2

Another way is to edit the .gitconfig (create one if not exist), for instance:

vim ~/.gitconfig

and then add:

[color]
  diff = auto
  status = auto
  branch = auto

Answer 3

GIT uses colored output by default but on some system like as CentOS it is not enabled . You can enable it like this

git config --global color.ui  true 
git config --global color.ui  false 
git config --global color.ui  auto 

You can choose your required command from here .

Here --global is optional to apply action for every repository in your system . If you want to apply coloring for current repository only then you can do something like this -

 git config color.ui  true 

Answer 4

Git automatically colors most of its output if you ask it to. You can get very specific about what you want colored and how; but to turn on all the default terminal coloring, set color.ui to true:

git config --global color.ui true

Answer 5

Add to your .gitconfig file next code:

[color]
    ui = auto
[color "branch"]
    current = yellow reverse
    local = yellow
    remote = green
[color "diff"]
    meta = yellow bold
    frag = magenta bold
    old = red bold
    new = green bold
[color "status"]
    added = yellow
    changed = green
    untracked = cyan