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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Antoine's answer is correct. In addition, I'd say that you may want to
> enable color in the output to make it clearer (the @@ ... @@ part would
> be colored, but not the function name):
> 
>   git config --global color.ui auto

I wonder if that should be the default.  I've advised a lot of people to
turn it on and it seems to me that a user is much more likely to go
looking for a "turn color off" option than realise that color is an
option at all.