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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] config doc: clarify "to a terminal" in color.ui
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 01:27:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180531052711.GC17068@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180530210641.19771-3-avarab@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:06:39PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Change the documentation added when color.ui=auto was made the default
> in 4c7f1819b3 ("make color.ui default to 'auto'", 2013-06-10) to
> describe "auto" as kicking in when writing to the terminal or a pager,
> not just to the terminal.

Makes sense. Usually the pager only kicks in when we're going to a
terminal in the first place, so the two would be the same thing. But
obviously you can override that with "-p".

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-31  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30 21:06 [PATCH 0/4] color.ui docs & add color.ui=isatty Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-30 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] config doc: move color.ui documentation to one place Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31  5:25   ` Jeff King
2018-05-31  7:09     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01  5:31       ` Jeff King
2018-05-30 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] config doc: clarify "to a terminal" in color.ui Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31  5:27   ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-05-30 21:06 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] color.ui config: don't die on unknown values Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-30 22:32   ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-30 23:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-31  7:17     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01  5:53       ` Jeff King
2018-05-30 21:06 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] color.ui config: add "isatty" setting Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-30 22:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-31  7:07     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31  5:38   ` Jeff King
2018-05-31  7:01     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01  5:30       ` Jeff King

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