From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] grep: Colorize filename, line number, and separator Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:49:27 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1267246670-19118-1-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com> <1267246670-19118-5-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com> <4B890572.5040604@lsrfire.ath.cx> <4b8cb38b.870fcc0a.7ebc.1a83@mx.google.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lodato X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 03 05:49:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmgWl-0007Nm-BN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:49:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753663Ab0CCEtc (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:49:32 -0500 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:58052 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752826Ab0CCEtc (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:49:32 -0500 Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o234nRTR002026; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:49:27 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:49:27 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.157] [10.114.113.157]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:49:27 +0900 Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 714B452E1FF; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:49:27 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Mark Lodato's message of "Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:26:36 -0500") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mark Lodato 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.