On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:59:52PM +0000, Will Palmer wrote: > Perhaps --color=auto, specified on the command-line, should behave > differently to the various color options specified via config. That > might make both sides happy, as one could always specify --color=auto to > explicitly tell git to only color if it thinks it should. > > Can anyone else refresh my memory regarding the use-case where > hand-specified colors really should have an effect even with > --color=never? Without doing any digging on the list and just from the top of my head, I don't think it was ever really an intentional feature that format should ignore color settings. It simply wasn't bothered with because in the beginning, the only way to specify a format was on the command line. Now as we see them used in aliases, it probably makes sense to respect the color setting. If one wants the current behavior, they can always use --color=always. So I think the intent of Thomas' patch is a good change, though I haven't really looked closely at the patch itself. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html