Re: Default for color.ui (was Re: is this a bug of git-diff?)

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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I wonder if that should be the default.  I've advised a lot of people to
>> turn it on and it seems to me that a user is much more likely to go
>> looking for a "turn color off" option than realise that color is an
>> option at all.
>
> I'd love to see this by default, yes. Maybe a 2.0 change?
>
> If people agree that this is a good change, would we need a transition
> plan? I'd say no, as there is no real backward incompatibility involved.
> People who dislike colors can already set color.ui=false, and seeing
> colors can hardly harm them, just temporarily reduce the comfort for
> them.

I vote for this. It's the first thing I do in any setup, even the ones
that are note mine. I've also seen it in basically all the tutorials,
even before setting user.name/email.

I also don't see the point of a transition plan.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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