From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 08:56:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Updated to v2.14.2 on macOS; git add --patch broken
Message-ID: <xmqq4lrgip7u.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171003084506.lwmnrym4oyf66icz@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Note that I'm arguing that it's a foot-gun even without scripts in the
> picture at all. Forget about plumbing versus porcelain. If you set
> color.ui to "always", you're going to get unexpected and confusing
> results from time to time.

Really? 

I would think you would consistently get ANSI colored output in any
medium, even in files that you would later "cat" or "less -R" to
view.  Is that unexpected?  Those who set "always" (I am not among
them, of course) would expect that, I would think.