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Re: [PATCH] grep: don't support "grep.color"-like config options

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 20, 2009, 23:45 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0904210145260.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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<1240268295-10296-1-git-send-email-markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Hi,
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> color.grep and color.grep.* is the official and documented way to 
> highlight grep matches. Comparable options like diff.color.* and 
> status.color.* exist for backward compatibility reasons only and are not 
> documented any more.
But is it really so bad that we have to possibly break existing setups?
The cost of keeping them is really small IMHO.

Ciao, Dscho

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