From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:15:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "color.diff = true" is not "always" anymore.
Message-ID: <20071201041549.GB30725@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pf39m4j.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:36:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > It would be nice to have a "git config --colorbool" option, but it has
> > the unfortunate problem that the stdout of "git config" is piped back to
> > the caller, so the isatty check is meaningless (and the "pager in use"
> > is similarly tricky). Perhaps it should go in Git.pm, so it at least
> > only needs to be written once.
> 
> About the isatty(3) check, you do not have to use the stdout to report
> the result, though.  IOW, you could use the exit code from the command.

I thought about that, but it feels a little wrong since it is so unlike
all of the other interfaces to git-config. Still, I would consider doing
it if there weren't other issues (like knowing when a pager is in use).
At some point it becomes more complex than simply having the 5-10 lines
necessary to do the check in perl.

-Peff