Re: [PATCH 1/2] color: downgrade "always" to "auto" only for on-disk configuration

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2017, 05:05 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa80x0xcw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171012044724.GD155740@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Should we document this special case treatment of color.* in -c
> somewhere?  E.g.

Perhaps, although I'd save that until we actually add the new option to "git" potty, which hasn't happened yet, if I were thinking about adding some text like that. Also I'd call that --default-color=always or something like that, to avoid having to answer: what are the differences between these two --color thing in the following?

    git --color=foo cmd --color=bar

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