Subject: Re: General output formatting

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:40:19 -0800

Marc Branchaud <[email-masked]> writes:

> I have no opinion on exactly how to "butcher" the output for a
> terminal.   I guess it depends on how well Git wants to support
> copy/paste of its output.

Yup, that is a fine balancing act.  Given the current behaviour,

    $ cat .git/config
    [core]
            somevalue = "true\b\b\b\bfalse"
    $ git config --local --list
    core.somevalue=false

supporting copy-paste may not be such a good thing to do, though ;-)