From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:56:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] builtin/config: do not spawn pager when printing color codes
Message-ID: <a8702bc6-154a-439c-b4c2-0de208838775@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqikhjhbgo.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025, at 19:28, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>[snip]
>> Fix this by disabling the pager in case the user is asking us to print
>> color sequences.
>
> I am of two minds.  Part of me obviously agrees that it is more
> straight forward with this change.  But it may 

Did you drop something here or is it covered by the next paragraph?

>
> An interactive user experimenting while writing their own script
> might say something like
>
>  $ git config --type=color --default="reverse red" n.n
>
>[snip]