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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, win@wincent.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-diff-* --color oddness
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:24:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vejcym21q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080104081429.GA30635@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 4 Jan 2008 03:14:29 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I encountered some weirdness today with git-diff-{files,tree,index} and
> --color.  They parse the --color command line option, but do _not_ call
> git_config(git_diff_ui_config), so if the user has colors specified in
> the config, they are not used.

This is very deliberate.  ui_config is about the Porcelains.

> Ordinarily, I would say "nobody should use --color with diff-files". But
> we do, in git-add--interactive (see Wincent's 4af756f3).

The plumbing deliberately not calling ui_config does not have
anything to do with them supporting explicit --color options.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-04  8:14 [BUG] git-diff-* --color oddness Jeff King
2008-01-04  8:24 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-04  8:28   ` Jeff King
2008-01-04  8:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-04  8:43       ` Jeff King
2008-01-04  8:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-04  8:32   ` Jeff King
2008-01-04  8:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-04  8:59       ` Jeff King
2008-01-04  9:25         ` Jeff King
2008-01-04  9:37           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-04  9:45             ` Jeff King

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