From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 03:48:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: colorize man pages
Message-ID: <60a5dc0ab8e2c_2044120877@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpmxmulqt.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > How is enabling a configuration already present in `man` out of scope,
> > but running an *ENTIRELY* different program--such as konqueror or
> > woman--to view man pages is not?
> >
> >   git help --man git
> >
> > Doesn't even necessarily run man *already*.
> 
> As an end-user, I do not expect Git to run konqueror or woman with
> its own tweaks when it does so.  And I do not see a reason why "man"
> should be any different.

You skipped the first question: 

Do you also expect that `git diff a b` runs something similar to
`diff a b`?

-- 
Felipe Contreras