bug#5211: Color escape codes in the output of vc-git-print-log

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 15:57, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

> When did the --no-color option appear?
> If we pass it by default, then it will break C-x v l for git versions
> that do not support it.
> If --no-color is old enough, the it might not matter...

Good question. According to the logs, in July 2006


  commit fef88bb0134dfd47b4bd17e668bbb860588dcb39
  Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
  Date:   2006-07-07 05:27:24 -0700

      diff.c: --no-color to defeat diff.color configuration.

      Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>


which means, if I'm not mistaken, that it appeared in git 1.4.2.

    Juanma