Default for color.ui (was Re: is this a bug of git-diff?)

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 15, 2013, 10:03 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq61yky2zp.fsf_-_@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20130515095025.GV2299@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> I wonder if that should be the default.  I've advised a lot of people to
> turn it on and it seems to me that a user is much more likely to go
> looking for a "turn color off" option than realise that color is an
> option at all.

I'd love to see this by default, yes. Maybe a 2.0 change?

If people agree that this is a good change, would we need a transition plan? I'd say no, as there is no real backward incompatibility involved. People who dislike colors can already set color.ui=false, and seeing colors can hardly harm them, just temporarily reduce the comfort for them.

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Matthieu Moy
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