From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff-index ignores color config
Message-ID: <7voc3sewpg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1303830261.3387.21.camel@dhcp-141.kontor.deklomp.se>

Elias Persson <delreich@takeit.se> writes:

> Having color.ui (and/or color.diff) set to auto, doing
>
>    git diff-index --check <some refspec>
>
> on a set with e.g. trailing whitespace does not produce colored
> output.

Isn't that very much on purpose?  diff-{index,tree,files} plumbings should
not be affected by UI related configuration variables.