From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 02:58:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/config: note trailing newline with --type=color
Message-ID: <20190307025821.GB25656@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <be22686b93fa76f0ff63a7d93cb731545c57cb22.1551916338.git.me@ttaylorr.com>

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:52:38PM -0800, Taylor Blau wrote:

> In 63e2a0f8e9 (builtin/config: introduce `color` type specifier,
> 2018-04-09), `--type=color` was introduced and preferred to the
> old-style `--get-color`.
> 
> The two behave the same in almost every way, save for the fact that
> `--type=color` prints a trailing newline where `--get-color` does not.
> Instead of introducing ambiguity between `--type=color` and the other
> `--type` variants, document the difference between `--type=color` and
> `--get-color` instead.

I just responded to the one Junio posted elsewhere in the thread, but
for the record this one is fine to me, too (and it gets the literal
quoting right ;) ).

-Peff