Feature request:

<nh2> kowey: DARCS_ALWAYS_COLOR=1 DARCS_DO_COLOR_LINES=1 darcs diff -u
is still completely colorless

<kowey> nh2: if the latter, coloured diffs may be worth adding as a
feature to darcs (riding on the same option)

Thanks!

Sounds like a good thing to have for tty output

We already have whatsnew from Nicolas' work; so maybe not so hard to do?   
You just need to be careful that people trying to create diff+patch style 
files don't get weird garbage

`darcs diff` uses external diff tools, so coloring is done there instead.  
I have the following line in ~/.darcs/defaults so that I see color diffs:

  diff diff-command colordiff -rN -u %1 %2

That should go into clearly visible documentation. Colored diffs make 
life so much easier.

On Fri 03 Aug 2012 21:18:53 BST, Michael Hendricks wrote:
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> Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> added the comment:
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> `darcs diff` uses external diff tools, so coloring is done there instead.
> I have the following line in ~/.darcs/defaults so that I see color diffs:
>
>   diff diff-command colordiff -rN -u %1 %2
>
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In darcs 2.8.0, `darcs help diff` says "The command always uses an 
external diff utility."  I think that documentation was absent in earlier 
versions.

FAQ updated: http://darcs.net/FAQ#how-do-i-get-coloured-diffs

Anything more we can do with this? Should Darcs try to be clever about 
using colordiff if it's available?