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Re: What's in git.git and announcing v1.4.1-rc1

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 23, 2006, 14:59 UTC
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> > 
> >  - default to red/green for old/new lines. That's the norm, I'd think.
> 
> ... and which happens to be useless for 10% of the male population (and 
> even more if you look specifically at Asian people). But then, I just 
> pasted that part from somewhere else.
Sure.

(Although I think it's 7% in general, and more in certain populations, some Western European countries included)

Which just means that we should have some way to let people set their own colors.

The _default_ should be the one people expect, though.
		Linus
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Message 15 of 18 in “What's in git.git and announcing v1.4.1-rc1”
  1. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2006
  3. Paolo CiarrocchiJun 22, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsJun 22, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisJun 22, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 22, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiJun 22, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisJun 22, 2006
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 23, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinJun 23, 2006
  13. Pádraig BradyJun 23, 2006
  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 23, 2006
  15. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2006
  16. diff --color: use $GIT_DIR/configJunio C Hamano, Jun 24, 2006
  17. Johannes SchindelinJun 24, 2006
  18. diff --color: use reset sequence when we mean reset.Junio C Hamano, Jun 24, 2006

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