From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 01:42:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] help: colorize man pages if man.color=true under less(1)
Message-ID: <xmqq7did30q6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YNPM4yvk/71oeAPx@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> .... But from your
> description (and I think the code matches this), doing:
>
>   [color]
>   ui = false
>   man = true
>
> would still disable the man-colors. So there's no way to enable this
> feature without enabling colors everywhere else. I think it should
> simply be independent of color.ui (with the exception that it may
> eventually use it as a fallback like all the other color.* booleans,
> _if_ we want to move it to default-to-on).

That matches my perception.  Thanks.