Re: color.diff.<slot> for commit headers (Author, Date, ...)

> Hi!
> 
> According to git-config(1):
> 
>      color.diff.<slot>
>          Use customized color for diff colorization.  <slot> specifies
>          which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
>          of context (context text - plain is a historical synonym),
>          meta (metainformation), frag (hunk header), func (function in
>          hunk header), old (removed lines), new (added lines), commit
>          (commit headers), whitespace (highlighting whitespace errors),
>          oldMoved (deleted lines), newMoved (added lines),
>          oldMovedDimmed, oldMovedAlternative,
>          oldMovedAlternativeDimmed, newMovedDimmed, newMovedAlternative
>          newMovedAlternativeDimmed (See the <mode> setting of
>          --color-moved in git‐diff(1) for details), contextDimmed,
>          oldDimmed, newDimmed, contextBold, oldBold, and newBold (see
>          git‐range‐diff(1) for details).
> 
> color.diff.commit (commit headers) would seem to be the slot for
> coloring Author, Date, etc.  However, that colors the commit hash
> exclusively.
> 
> The documentation should be updated to reflect reality.  Maybe
> 
> 	s/headers/hash/
> 
> Also, I'm interested in coloring the actual header fields; that is
> Author, Date, etc.  I think a good name for that slot could be
> 'header'.  Would you mind adding that?

> 
> 
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex
> 
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