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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] grep: Colorize filename, line number, and separator
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:49:27 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buod3zmj9go.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca433831003022026pbc172d6ocb5ff2aefe29f462@mail.gmail.com> (Mark Lodato's message of "Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:26:36 -0500")

Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> writes:
> Furthermore, the current behavior of all git tools is to make
> --color turn on color always, so I imagine you would have to make an
> extremely compelling argument to break backwards compatibility.

I don't think the usual backwards-compatibility arguments should really
apply to edge-cases in frippery like --color...

-Miles

-- 
Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly
applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is
taking a bit of a rest.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-27  4:57 [PATCH 0/5] color enhancements, particularly for grep Mark Lodato
2010-02-27  4:57 ` [PATCH 1/5] Allow explicit ANSI codes for colors Mark Lodato
2010-02-27  8:51   ` Jeff King
2010-02-27 18:24     ` Mark Lodato
2010-02-27 21:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-28  2:56         ` [PATCH] color: allow multiple attributes Junio C Hamano
2010-02-28 12:20           ` Jeff King
2010-02-28 18:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-28 18:33               ` Jeff King
2010-02-27  4:57 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add GIT_COLOR_BOLD_* and GIT_COLOR_BG_* Mark Lodato
2010-02-27  4:57 ` [PATCH 3/5] Remove reference to GREP_COLORS from documentation Mark Lodato
2010-02-27  4:57 ` [PATCH 4/5] grep: Colorize filename, line number, and separator Mark Lodato
2010-02-27 11:43   ` René Scharfe
2010-02-28 20:14     ` Mark Lodato
2010-02-28 22:26       ` Michael Witten
2010-03-02  1:49         ` Mark Lodato
2010-03-02  6:43           ` Michael Witten
2010-03-03  4:26             ` Mark Lodato
2010-03-03  4:49               ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-02-27 11:53   ` René Scharfe
2010-02-27 17:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-28 20:15       ` Mark Lodato
2010-02-28 19:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-28 20:39     ` Mark Lodato
2010-02-27  4:57 ` [PATCH 5/5] grep: Colorize selected, context, and function lines Mark Lodato

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