From: Miles Bader Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:49:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] grep: Colorize filename, line number, and separator Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mark Lodato writes: > Furthermore, the current behavior of all git tools is to make > --color turn on color always, so I imagine you would have to make an > extremely compelling argument to break backwards compatibility. I don't think the usual backwards-compatibility arguments should really apply to edge-cases in frippery like --color... -Miles -- Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.