On 22/05/2021 10:55, Jeff King wrote: > 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 And we have the whole Git for Windows community who don't have `man` anyway... It's a bit of a conundrum, especially when considering all the 'terminals' Windows folk maybe using.
