Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Side note, not about this patch: we treat pager.color as a synonym for > color.pager. Is that something we want to document, or is that an > instance of being extra friendly when the user makes a typo? IIUC, this is the same historical wart that comes from the same place as diff.color that existed before color.<cmd> wanted to be the way forward. We do not break existing configuration files by starting to suddenly reject diff.color or pager.color, but we do not encourage new uses by not advertising them.