From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:47:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Perl warning in git-svn (git v1.5.3-rc7-16-ge340d7d)
Message-ID: <46D8A886.5060701@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4x3xuu3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I was almost going to suggest us to change "*.color = true" to
>> mean 'auto'.  Because git can internally use pager and has a way
>> for the user to control enabling/disabling colors when the pager
>> is used, there is no _logical_ reason to enable pager when the
>> output is not going to a tty.
>>     
>
> Gaah, sorry; I meant "no logical reason to enable _color_ when
> the output is not going to a tty".

Sure there is, when the output is "less -R"

Sam.