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Ubuntu – Git diff does not show colors in VS code devcontainer

I have some problem with git diff on ubuntu in vs code.
I have prepared some project and devcontainer for it.
The container was build based on python3.11-apline.

When I open the project in normal terminal – i can see all difs in red and green colors. As expected.

In vs code – im opening the project in devcontainer. the git diff or git diff –color – shows all diffs but not highlighted as red or green.

For test I have saved diffs to file and then opened in the same terminal.

git diff --color > foo.txt

cat foo.txt

And all colors appeared!

I have also tried different vscode themes. All the same.

Do you have any idea?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Finally I have found a solution.

    Installing less package resolves the problem:

    apk --update add less in running container or just add the less to the Dockerfile:

    RUN apk update 
    && apk 
    (...)
    less 
    (...)

  2. 0

    Run git config color.diff in the DevContainer terminal. If it returns auto or always, colors should be enabled. If not, you can enable colors by running git config --global color.diff auto.

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