Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > If "git frotz" wants to have a separate "color.frotz" option to override > that, then they would need to implement that themselves either with or > without your patch. I do not think its presence makes things any harder. That _was_ (but no longer is) exactly my point. Eh, rather, its absense does not make things any harder. > So no, I do not think you can cover every conceivable case. But having > git-log respect --color and the usual color.* variables for this feature > seems like the only sane default. It makes the easy cases just work, and > the hard cases are not any worse off (and they may even be better off, > since the script can manipulate --color instead of rewriting their > format strings, but that is a minor difference). OK, care to reroll the one with your patch in the other message squashed in, possibly with fixes to the test (the result should now honor --color={always,never}, I think)? Thanks. -- 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