Re: What happened to "git status --color=(always|auto|never)"?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2017, 00:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20171010005942.GO19555@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEY4ZpPj3=+gL_wBW548qzAuS=aC=qswuPx-4H9DS=X10iJWVw@mail.gmail.com>

Nazri Ramliy wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nazri Ramliy wrote:

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>>> I used to work before, but now:
>>>
>>> $ git version
>>> git version 2.15.0.rc0.39.g2f0e14e649
>>>
>>> $ git status --color=always
>>> error: unknown option `color=always'
>>> usage: git status [<options>] [--] <pathspec>...
>>
>> Which version did it work in?  That would allow me to bisect.
>
> Sorry. It's my bad. I must have confused this with `git grep`'s --color option.

No problem. It sounds like a reasonable feature request to me, especially now that we are about to drop support for color.status=always in configuration:

	commit 6be4595edb8e5b616c6e8b9fbc78b0f831fa2a87
	Author: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
	Date:   Tue Oct 3 09:46:06 2017 -0400

	    color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config

Would you like to take a stab at adding it? builtin/commit.c and Documentation/git-{commit,status}.txt would be my best guesses at where to start.

Thanks, Jonathan