From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:45:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: don't support "grep.color"-like config options
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904210145260.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <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