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Doesn't work in my gnome-terminal. Looks like the commands get escaped by git somehow. Did anybody test it?
Doesn't work on Xfce either. On a virtual terminal thingy (ctrl-alt-f1) it shows a grey background with white text. I suspect blink is only implemented on the Mac's terminal, not in Linux-land.
...Lord, when did I get so old? :/
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Why would git strip formatting from my message? If my team wants colorful messages why should git be the one to say we're wrong? Git commit messages are used for lots of different things, but at the end of the day it's just another piece of data included in a hash in a content-addressable file system. If you're doing something with that tool where including formatting like this would be considered a vulnerability, it…
If you need to have this feature, then you should have to opt in (git config for example). But i have very good reasons to say that the default should properly escape the messages before printing them. I would not like it to clone a repo from github and having "git log" let my terminal go crazy. You unterstand, that this issue can have bigger impact than blinking commit messages, right?
The ideal solution is to sanitize all data before displaying it
on your terminal, however without a custom terminal application
or data filter, you can't guarantee that every tool you use on
the command-line is going to strip escape sequences. The
responsibility should rest on the actual terminal emulator; any
features that allow file or command-line access should be
disabled by default and more attention should be paid to new
features that implement any use of escape sequences. [0]
Regrettably (?), you can't use this to implement marquee. But you can make your text black with a black background. Or re-order lines, which I suspect to be "fun" for git logs.
This is a really entertaining writing style: technical enlightenment through demonstration via humorous examples. For the lazy (and additional humorous demonstration), I wish he'd provided an example gif showing it in action (i.e., Github, terminal, Sourcetree, etc...).
The author uses female pronouns.
At first, I was surprised to find I falsely assumed she was male in spite of evidence to the contrary, and was going to thank you for making me more aware of my own oversight. Upon review, however, I made the correct assumption that it was non-gendered. I'll forego the inciting comment, and corresponding cultural political flamewar over my use of a singular default male pronoun. If you down-voted me, please understand that doing so is alienating and a disservice to conversations. We should not punish commenters for failing to conform to our own personal cultural norms. This is consistent with the spirit of your comment; engineers need not conform to external expectations of a masculine identity.
[1] Her handles at the bottom are neither pronouns, nor in the blog post, and were inconsequential to me given my present lack of motive for reaching out to the author.
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The author uses female pronouns.
There are no gendered pronouns in her blog post.[1] At first, I was surprised to find I falsely assumed she was male in spite of evidence to the contrary, and was going to thank you for making me more aware of my own oversight. Upon review, however, I made the correct assumption that it was non-gendered. I'll forego the inciting comment, and corresponding cultural political flamewar over my use of a singular default…
I'm not sure why you think he/his pronouns are nongendered. The nongendered pronouns in English are they/them.
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There are no gendered pronouns in her blog post.[1] At first, I was surprised to find I falsely assumed she was male in spite of evidence to the contrary, and was going to thank you for making me more aware of my own oversight. Upon review, however, I made the correct assumption that it was non-gendered. I'll forego the inciting comment, and corresponding cultural political flamewar over my use of a singular default…
I didn't downvote you. (Downvotes are heavily rate-limited, at a guess, from very unscientific observation, I think I only get ten a day, so I save them for the really annoying comments.) I'm not sure why you think he/his pronouns are nongendered. The nongendered pronouns in English are they/them.
he/his and they/them both have well-established non-gender-specific meanings in the more recent (social) meaning of "gender" (prior to that fairly recent linguistic evolution, words had gender and people had sex -- while its useful to have a term for the distinct feature of people referred to by "gender" as distinct from "sex", its a very different thing than grammatical "gender", and grammatical gender doesn't have a 1:1 mapping to linguistic constructs whose semantics refer to social gender), though he/his also has a gender-specific meaning (and there is considerable potential for ambiguity between the gender-neutral and gender-specific senses of he/his.)
git commit -F Oh god do I feel bad about this. What have I done? [0] https://github.com/thiderman/doge
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If you need to have this feature, then you should have to opt in (git config for example). But i have very good reasons to say that the default should properly escape the messages before printing them. I would not like it to clone a repo from github and having "git log" let my terminal go crazy. You unterstand, that this issue can have bigger impact than blinking commit messages, right?
Terminal attacks are not new and the solution isn't to expect every individual program to escape terminal escape codes. The ideal solution is to sanitize all data before displaying it on your terminal, however without a custom terminal application or data filter, you can't guarantee that every tool you use on the command-line is going to strip escape sequences. The responsibility should rest on the actual terminal em…
I mean, it would be super nice for your terminal emulator to just automagically filter out escape sequences when you, the user, do not want them and to allow them for programs that you do. a whitelist would work but would be super annoying to actually verify as so many programs output things from so many different inputs. it seems like programs themselves should decide if they need to output arbitrary data and, in cases where they don't, like git, they can filter it.
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There are no gendered pronouns in her blog post.[1] At first, I was surprised to find I falsely assumed she was male in spite of evidence to the contrary, and was going to thank you for making me more aware of my own oversight. Upon review, however, I made the correct assumption that it was non-gendered. I'll forego the inciting comment, and corresponding cultural political flamewar over my use of a singular default…
I didn't downvote you. (Downvotes are heavily rate-limited, at a guess, from very unscientific observation, I think I only get ten a day, so I save them for the really annoying comments.) I'm not sure why you think he/his pronouns are nongendered. The nongendered pronouns in English are they/them.
> I think I only get ten [downvotes] a day, so I save them for the really annoying comments.
10 downvotes a day? Please reconsider your behavior. You are almost certainly unnecessarily alienating commenters, and in this case, misguidedly so.
> I'm not sure why you think he/his pronouns are nongendered.
When I said "it was non-gendered," I was referring to the blog post, which meant your original comment, "The author uses female pronouns," is factually incorrect.
> The nongendered pronouns in English are they/them.
I'm aware, and intimated as much: "I'll forego [discussing] my use of a singular default male pronoun". Yes, they/them is non-gendered, but it is also plural, making it grammatically historically incorrect. However, despite the informality of my comment, given the extreme propensity of the "generic he" to be controversialized, especially in technology and the internet, and the movement away from it during my lifetime, I'll placate to avoid the negative insinuations.
Educating yourself on the context of the matter would go a long way to ameliorate your sanctimonious attitude, and hopefully disincline you to feel the need to controversialize, divert and detract from conversations in the future.