--- a/mercurial/subrepo.py Thu Dec 22 14:30:46 2016 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/subrepo.py Tue Feb 21 17:50:04 2017 +0100
@@ -1414,6 +1414,10 @@
errpipe = None
if self.ui.quiet:
errpipe = open(os.devnull, 'w')
+ if self.ui._colormode and len(commands) and commands[0] == "diff":
+ # insert the argument in the front,
+ # the end of git diff arguments is used for paths
+ commands.insert(1, '--color')
p = subprocess.Popen([self._gitexecutable] + commands, bufsize=-1,
cwd=cwd, env=env, close_fds=util.closefds,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=errpipe)