From: Felipe Contreras Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:37:11 GMT Subject: Re: Default for color.ui (was Re: is this a bug of git-diff?) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > John Keeping writes: > >> I wonder if that should be the default. I've advised a lot of people to >> turn it on and it seems to me that a user is much more likely to go >> looking for a "turn color off" option than realise that color is an >> option at all. > > I'd love to see this by default, yes. Maybe a 2.0 change? > > If people agree that this is a good change, would we need a transition > plan? I'd say no, as there is no real backward incompatibility involved. > People who dislike colors can already set color.ui=false, and seeing > colors can hardly harm them, just temporarily reduce the comfort for > them. I vote for this. It's the first thing I do in any setup, even the ones that are note mine. I've also seen it in basically all the tutorials, even before setting user.name/email. I also don't see the point of a transition plan. -- Felipe Contreras