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Re: [PATCH 1/2] color: downgrade "always" to "auto" only for on-disk configuration

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 12, 2017, 13:06 UTC
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 03:58:18PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > We need to be able to answer "why does '-c color.ui=always' work
> > only from the command line?", but I doubt we want to actively
> > encourage the use of it, though, so I dunno.
> 
> For today's pushout, I've queued this as [PATCH 3/2]
> 
> Thanks..
> 
> -- >8 --
> From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> Subject: color: document that "git -c color.*=always" is a bit special
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:47:24 -0700

This looks reasonable to me to ship in v2.15. I assume we're going to leave any "git --default-color=..." options to post-release, since we're already in -rc1.

-Peff
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Message 23 of 42 in “What happened to "git status --color=(always|auto|never)"?”
  1. Nazri RamliyOct 9, 2017
  2. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2017
  3. Nazri RamliyOct 10, 2017
  4. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2017
  5. Nazri RamliyOct 10, 2017
  6. Jeff KingOct 10, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2017
  8. Jeff KingOct 10, 2017
  9. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2017
  10. Jeff KingOct 10, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2017
  12. 0/2 Piling more kludge on top of color.uiJunio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2017
  13. 2/2 color: discourage use of ui.color=alwaysJunio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2017
  14. Jonathan NiederOct 12, 2017
  15. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2017
  17. 1/2 color: downgrade "always" to "auto" only for on-disk configurationJunio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2017
  18. Jonathan NiederOct 12, 2017
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2017
  20. Jonathan NiederOct 12, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2017
  22. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2017
  23. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  24. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  25. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  26. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2017
  27. Jeff KingOct 13, 2017
  28. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2017
  29. Jeff KingOct 13, 2017
  30. 0/4 peeling back color.ui=always hacksJeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  31. 1/4 Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"Jeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  32. 2/4 Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests"Jeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  33. 3/4 Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"Jeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  34. 4/4 tag: respect color.ui configJeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  35. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2017
  36. Jeff KingOct 16, 2017
  37. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2017
  38. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2017
  39. Jeff KingOct 18, 2017
  40. Junio C HamanoOct 18, 2017
  41. Jonathan NiederOct 17, 2017
  42. Jeff KingOct 18, 2017

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