Re: [PATCH 2/2] expand --pretty=format color options

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:36:08AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > > Of course. But the problem is that rev-list is _already_ contaminated 
> > > by --pretty=format:%Cred. Or do you mean, you really want rev-list to 
> > > unconditionally output color in such a case?
> > 
> > No, rev-list is not contaminated with UI color options.  %Cred _always_ 
> > outputs the color, even when the user turned off color explicitely, 
> > using --no-color.
> 
> BTW I would find it very logical for rev-list not to output any color at 
> all when %C(yellow) is specified, as your code respects the diff UI 
> options, which are implicitly turned off for rev-list (as rev-list is no 
> UI), just like the coloring of "commit <name>" is implicitly turned off 
> for rev-list.

Now I'm confused. Should color in --pretty=format always be on, or
should it respect color settings? You seem to be advocating both sides
in the two paragraphs.

The behavior I would propose it along the lines of:

 - plumbing _always_ has color off

 - porcelain respects color.* config, --color, etc

-Peff