Fixed #19877 -- Added `--no-color` option to `BaseCommand` to avoid using output styles.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 565c779525..6be9d0f441 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -1429,6 +1429,19 @@ that ``django-admin.py`` should print to the console.
 * ``2`` means verbose output.
 * ``3`` means *very* verbose output.
 
+.. django-admin-option:: --no-color
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.7
+
+Example usage::
+
+    django-admin.py sqlall --no-color
+
+By default, ``django-admin.py`` will format the output to be colorized. For
+example, errors will be printed to the console in red and SQL statements will
+be syntax highlighted. To prevent this and have a plain text output, pass the
+``--no-color`` option when running your command.
+
 Common options
 ==============
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
index 8d863c849a..217fdff287 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ Minor features
 * :func:`~django.core.mail.send_mail` now accepts an ``html_message``
   parameter for sending a multipart ``text/plain`` and ``text/html`` email.
 
+* The :djadminopt:`--no-color` option for ``django-admin.py`` allows you to
+  disable the colorization of management command output.
+
 Backwards incompatible changes in 1.7
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