Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > "git format-patch HEAD^ --color" produces red/green output > (like git log would), so I do not see why --color-moved should impact > format-patch differently. (i.e. if the user requests format-patch with > color-moved we can do it, otherwise, when colors are off, we do not > spend cycles to compute the moves) > > Maybe I did not understand the gist of your question, still? "format-patch --color" done by end-user, especially when combined with "--stdout", would be useful to show coloured output. That is what you are talking about in the above, but that is not what I was asking about. The question was specifically about configuration. You may say "diff.colorwhatever = on", but "git format-patch" with no command line override wouldn't want to be affected by that and produce a patch that won't apply, I would think.
