If you wanted to paint the HEAD decoration as the same color as the body text (primarily because cyan is too faint on a black-on-white terminal to be readable) you would not want to say [color "decorate"] head = black because that you would not be able to reuse same configuration on a white-on-black terminal. I would naively expect [color "decorate"] head = normal to work, but it does not. I notice that we have these definitions in color.h: #define GIT_COLOR_NORMAL "" #define GIT_COLOR_RESET "\033[m" #define GIT_COLOR_BOLD "\033[1m" #define GIT_COLOR_RED "\033[31m" #define GIT_COLOR_GREEN "\033[32m" ... As a workaround, I ended up doing this: [color "decorate"] head = reset which should work OK. But I have a feeling that the definition of our "normal" may want to do the "reset", not "no-op" like we currently do. Comments? -- 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