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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2017, 03:37 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzi8vvht6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171013014721.d4vesqv4v5j7tmk2@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> OK. For the record, I'm not against scrapping this whole thing and
> trying to rollback to your "plumbing never looks at color.ui" proposal.
> It's quite late in the -rc cycle to do that, but there's nothing that
> says we can't bump the release date if that's what we need to do to get
> it right.

I think that it is too late, regardless of our release cycle.

"Plumbing never looks at color.ui" implies that "plumbing must not get color.ui=auto from 4c7f1819", but given that 4c7f1819 is from 2013, I'd be surprised if we stopped coloring output from plumbing without getting any complaints from third-party script writers.

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