Color in git-log

git, git-log

Solution

As of git 1.8.3 (May 24, 2013), you can use `%C(auto)` to decorate `%d` in the format string of `git log`.

From the release notes:

 * "git log --format" specifier learned %C(auto) token that tells Git
   to use color when interpolating %d (decoration), %h (short commit
   object name), etc. for terminal output.)

Problem

When you run `git log --decorate --pretty=oneline` the output will have entries like `(HEAD, refs/published/master, master)` with coloration. I also have the following in my gitconfig: ``` [color "branch"] current = yellow reverse local = yellow remote = green ``` How do you replicate those colors when doing a custom format like the following? ``` git log --decorate --stat --graph --pretty=format:"%d %Cgreen%h%Creset (%ar - %Cred%an%Creset), %s%n" ```

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