[Monotone-devel] Re: colored diffs [Was: [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx']

[Lapo Luchini]

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Derek Scherger wrote:
>>> (What's this diffc-0.3 thing?)
>> It's just some perl script that colorizes diffs in a way that seems to
>> look nice. It used to be available at http://download.gnu.org/diffc-0.3
>> but I can't seem to get there at the moment.
> 
> Personally, I use FreeBSD's cdiff (both on FreeBSD and on Cygwin):
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/cdiff/src/

We could, in fact, add a --color option to "mtn diff" itself...

Pro: no need to have perl, no need to constantly pipe things
Cons: probably need an external one in the system anyway

Also "mtn log" and "mtn status" would have a big benefit from colors, in
fact. It could be nice to use them... should probably be off by default,
but turnable on by default using an hook or something.

Does anyone object if I implement that? ;-)

    Lapo