Why is git blame output not coloured when piped to delta?

[tg0h]

git blame <file> produces coloured output. However, when I pipe this to delta, git blame <file> | delta does not provide coloured output...

I am not able to reproduce this behaviour with git diff.

Am I supposed to do something with the --blame-code-style and related --blame options?

[dandavison]

Hi @tg0h, delta uses the filename to infer the language. (E.g. foo.py => Python, bah.rs => Rust). But the output of git blame does not contain the filename.

However, the situation might not be hopeless. Delta does have code that finds the command that was used when piping to delta. Do you have any interest in writing Rust and would you like to have a go at making it work? I'm going to turn your question into an Issue. Thanks for documenting it so well.