Git Color UI support for 256 Colors?
256color, git, prompt, terminal
Solution
The syntax for the color is: `[fg [bg]] [attr]...`
As for the colors, you can use the named ones (normal, black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, and white) or just a number of the color in the 256 palette without any prefix.
The supported attributes are: bold, dim, ul, blink, and reverse.
So your configuration might look like this (tested with git 1.8.5.3):
[color "branch"]
local = 33
remote = 46
current = 27
I have taken a look into the git source code to find the answer.
Problem
I am trying to colour my Git output using my native XTerm 256 color palette. Is there anyway to do this? I can't seem to get it to work. for example in `.gitconfig`. ``` [color] ui = auto [color 'branch'] local = colour33 remote = colour46 current = colour27 ``` Etc. I know this formatting works when you specify the various basic color terms; cyan, magenta, yellow, and attributes; dim, bright, ul, bold, etc. But I just can't find anything in regards to using the full color palette available to a 256color terminal, without actually changing the 8 basic color terms themselves, in the actual pallete. There isn't anything in the documentation or manpages that I can find either. I know different programs seem to use different syntax for specifying color, so I may just be using the wrong syntax or I am the only one who has ever wanted to do such a thing. I am assuming `git-config` will only support those basic 8 colors with various attributes based on what the `git-config` man page is saying, so if this is not possible, is there a way to change those colors, in the terminals color palette BUT only for one program, like in this situation, Git? Maybe a perl script that exports those values only when `git-config` is referencing them, but unsets them soon as `git-config` is finished? And no this is not too much trouble than its worth. I love my eyecandy in a terminal, and id do it myself if I could figure out a resource that explains something similar.