From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:37:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] expand --pretty=format color options
Message-ID: <20090118173753.GB17434@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <49736331.8010003@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:13:21PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

> Another step would be for --pretty=format to respect the color config,
> i.e. it shouldn't print any colour codes if colouring is turned off or
> if set to auto while writing to file or pipe.

That makes sense to me. In theory, we could offer an "always use this
color" and a "conditionally use this color" substitution. But I don't
really see why anyone would want the "always use this color" one (they
could just say --color, then).

-Peff