[PATCH] status: learn --color for piping colored output

["Lance Ward via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>]

From: Lance Ward <ljward10@gmail.com>

Many users like to pipe colored results of git status to other commands
such as more or less, but by default colors are lost when piping without
changing the user's git configuration.  Many other commands such as diff,
show, log and grep have a --color option to easily override this behavior.
This allows the status command to have a similar --color option providing
a simpler mechanism for temporarily forcing piped colored output.

Signed-off-by: Lance Ward <ljward10@gmail.com>
---
    status: learn --color command line option
    
    Many users like to pipe colored results of git status to other commands
    such as more or less, but by default colors are lost when piping without
    changing the user's git configuration. Many other commands such as diff,
    show, log and grep have a --color option to easily override this
    behavior. This allows the status command to have a similar --color
    option providing a simpler mechanism for temporarily forcing piped
    colored output.
    
    Signed-off-by: Lance Ward ljward10@gmail.com

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-955%2Fljward10%2Flw-add-status-color-option-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-955/ljward10/lw-add-status-color-option-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/955

 Documentation/git-status.txt   |  9 ++++++++
 builtin/commit.c               |  6 +++++
 t/t7528-status-color-option.sh | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 t/t7528-status-color-option.sh

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index c0764e850a44..d5655d051841 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ OPTIONS
 --branch::
 	Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format.
 
+--color[=<when>]::
+	Color status output, overriding configuration file setting.
+	The value must be always (the default), never, or auto.
+
+--no-color::
+	Turn off color ouput, even when the configuration file gives
+	the default to color output.
+	Same as `--color=never`.
+
 --show-stash::
 	Show the number of entries currently stashed away.
 
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 739110c5a7f6..7f0a9d07a0ee 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -1355,6 +1355,7 @@ static int git_status_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
 int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	static int no_renames = -1;
+	static int use_color = GIT_COLOR_AUTO;
 	static const char *rename_score_arg = (const char *)-1;
 	static struct wt_status s;
 	unsigned int progress_flag = 0;
@@ -1378,6 +1379,7 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			    STATUS_FORMAT_LONG),
 		OPT_BOOL('z', "null", &s.null_termination,
 			 N_("terminate entries with NUL")),
+		OPT__COLOR(&use_color, N_("use colored output")),
 		{ OPTION_STRING, 'u', "untracked-files", &untracked_files_arg,
 		  N_("mode"),
 		  N_("show untracked files, optional modes: all, normal, no. (Default: all)"),
@@ -1410,6 +1412,10 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	handle_untracked_files_arg(&s);
 	handle_ignored_arg(&s);
 
+	if (use_color != GIT_COLOR_AUTO) {
+		s.use_color=use_color;
+	}
+
 	if (s.show_ignored_mode == SHOW_MATCHING_IGNORED &&
 	    s.show_untracked_files == SHOW_NO_UNTRACKED_FILES)
 		die(_("Unsupported combination of ignored and untracked-files arguments"));
diff --git a/t/t7528-status-color-option.sh b/t/t7528-status-color-option.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..d14ea03f92c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t7528-status-color-option.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='git status color option'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+	echo 1 >original &&
+	git add .
+'
+
+# Normal git status does not pipe colors
+test_expect_success 'git status' '
+	git status >raw &&
+	test_decode_color <raw >out &&
+	grep "original$" out
+'
+
+# Test new color option with never (expect same as above)
+test_expect_success 'git status --color=never' '
+	git status --color=never >raw &&
+	test_decode_color <raw >out &&
+	grep "original$" out
+'
+
+# Test new color (default is always)
+test_expect_success 'git status --color' '
+	git status --color >raw &&
+	test_decode_color <raw >out &&
+	grep "original<RESET>$" out
+'
+
+# Test new color option with always
+test_expect_success 'git status --color=always' '
+	git status --color=always >raw &&
+	test_decode_color <raw >out &&
+	grep "original<RESET>$" out
+'
+
+test_done

base-commit: e6362826a0409539642a5738db61827e5978e2e4
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