Git pretty format colors

Question

I\'m trying to set up pretty format colors for Git. From what I can tell version 1.6.0 only recognizes red, green and blue.

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Answer 1

Here are two aliases that I wrote once I understood the syntax of using custom hexadecimal color values as shown in @VonC 's answer.

There are four versions, the only difference is the --graph directive and the 'f' versions will also show you files that were added, deleted or modified:

[alias]
    lg = log --graph --pretty=format:"%C(#cd9a00)%h\\%C(#0080ff)\\ <%an>\\ %C(#17b062)(%cr)\\ %d\\%C(#c0d6de)%s"    
    l1 = log --pretty=format:"%C(#cd9a00)%h\\%C(#0080ff)\\ <%an>\\ %C(#17b062)(%cr)\\ %d\\%C(#c0d6de)%s"    
    lgf = log --name-status --graph --pretty=format:"%C(#cd9a00)%h\\%C(#0080ff)\\ <%an>\\ %C(#17b062)(%cr)\\ %d\\%C(#c0d6de)%s" 
    l1f = log --name-status --pretty=format:"%C(#cd9a00)%h\\%C(#0080ff)\\ <%an>\\ %C(#17b062)(%cr)\\ %d\\%C(#c0d6de)%s"

I used this site to pick the exact colors I wanted and then copied the hex value from it:

https://www.colorhexa.com/

For Windows, open up your .gitconfig file that resides in your "C:\Users\YourUserName" Folder and add an alias section as depicted above.

Hope you like them.