July 12, 2024

Change the color of git’s output e.g. git diff

To change the color of, say, text that was removed when you run git diff, to the color yellow run:

$ git config --global color.diff.old yellow

You can find the color setting’s name by pressing the key tab. For example, if you want to see what color settings there are related to git status, type:

$ git config --global color.status

then press the key tab.

The shell shall print git-status’ color settings:

color.status.added          
color.status.branch         
color.status.changed        
color.status.header             
color.status.localBranch    
color.status.remoteBranch   
color.status.noBranch       
color.status.untracked      
color.status.unmerged       
color.status.updated

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