Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:36:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > It would be nice to have a "git config --colorbool" option, but it has >> > the unfortunate problem that the stdout of "git config" is piped back to >> > the caller, so the isatty check is meaningless (and the "pager in use" >> > is similarly tricky). Perhaps it should go in Git.pm, so it at least >> > only needs to be written once. >> >> About the isatty(3) check, you do not have to use the stdout to report >> the result, though. IOW, you could use the exit code from the command. > > I thought about that, but it feels a little wrong since it is so unlike > all of the other interfaces to git-config. Yeah, that is why I did not seriously suggest it. The message you were responding to was sitting in my "I do not know if this should go out" box for a few days and was sent out purely by accident ;-) - 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
