On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 04:40:30PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 01:01:35PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > > > > I still don't understand what we gain by making this a Git feature, > > > > > > What do we gain by making `git diff` output color? > > > > Huh? Git is outputting the diff. Who else would output the color? > > Do you think our users know or care which binary has the final > connection to the tty? Yes. If we are telling them that "git help git" is using "man", which we do, then I think they should expect it to behave like "man". Moreover, I think that if they like colorized manpages, they'd probably want them when running "man" themselves. -Peff
