From: Matthieu Moy Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:56:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] make color.ui default to 'auto' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v8v3gcfk1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > I think you are missing the entire point, which is not "is anyone > harmed?" Again, it is. If the new default is really harmful for too many people, then documentations will have to mention how to fix it. And really, I do not forsee any newbie-oriented starting with "here's how to disable colors in case you need it", because of the reasons mentionned in the message. > Our recommendation has been "use color=auto" Not really. Neither Documentation/gittutorial.txt nor Documentation/user-manual.txt mention colors. Pro Git mentions it, but more as a possibility than as a recommandation. This is the recommandation of the rest of the world, not "ours". It's not "either we update the docs or we update the code", it's "follow what the rest of the world is doing", and "rest of the world" has to imply a notion of majority (not all tutorials talk about color.ui). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/