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I'm trying to compress the output of git status a bit, for a "system status" script that runs whenever I log in to an ssh session. I'm hoping it'll nag at me and encourage me to commit more often!

git status | grep -v "git add\|git checkout\|no changes added"

Sadly it loses the coloring; any modified files are shown in the default font color, not red.

I've tried adding --color=never to the grep command, but that didn't make a difference, so I assume git status isn't adding color codes because of the pipe. Since a few commands in linux have --color=always to get over this, I tried adding that to git, but it just complained about an unknown option.

Thanks

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I've discovered that you can add color options to the .git/config file in the project directory. This did exactly what I wanted:

[color]
status = always
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    Instead of editing .git/config by hand, it's better to use git config color.status always to do it for you. You can also add --global or --system to set the preferences for all your repositories at once. See man git-config for details. Commented Nov 20, 2020 at 10:13
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    Or per command as answered here: git -c color.status=always status Commented Nov 24, 2021 at 13:02
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    I came here not for status but for log, where -c color.diff=always solved it but took me a while to recognize that status in color.status stands for the status command, not for the color status.. so I hope this comment saves someone some time :-) Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 8:29

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