From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Toni Uebernickel <tuebernickel@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Tsvi Mostovicz <ttmost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Updated to v2.14.2 on macOS; git add --patch broken
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 03:16:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171003071622.el6zqibfyrjc2mra@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqinfwiu5n.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 04:10:12PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > I'd prefer not to revert. I think setting any of the color config to
> > "always" in an on-disk file is basically a broken config. It was
> > exacerbated by 4c7f1819b, but it was already broken for scripts that
> > call "git log" or "git diff", or even just something as simple as piping
> > those programs on the command line.
>
> I actually disagree with that reasoning.
>
> We've promised that plumbing commands were safe to use in scripts,
> and 4c7f1819 ("make color.ui default to 'auto'", 2013-06-10) got it
> closer to breaking it (but not quite), and 136c8c8b finally broke
> it. Setting ui.color=always and shooting themselves in the foot by
> seeing ANSI escapes in "git log >file" output is totally user's
> choice. Breaking scripts that carefully chose to use plumbing,
> believing our earlier promise, and blaming user's ui.color=always
> does not sound quite like the same thing, at least to me.
I agree it's not quite the same thing, and I agree the problem was made
much worse by 4c7f1819b. But I still think color.ui=always is
inherently a foot-gun, and in either case it is the user that sets it
that is harmed (and they are the ones who have the power to fix it).
At any rate, I think you only need to agree with that reason to buy into
my "do nothing" option.
Option 2 would make everybody happy, I think (I'm working up a patch,
though note that it isn't quite trivial because of some abuses of the
color system in the test scripts).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-03 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-27 13:23 Updated to v2.14.2 on macOS; git add --patch broken Toni Uebernickel
2017-09-27 17:07 ` Jeff King
2017-09-27 17:28 ` Toni Uebernickel
2017-09-27 18:01 ` Jeff King
2017-09-27 19:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-27 19:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-28 5:03 ` Toni Uebernickel
2017-09-28 5:20 ` Jeff King
2017-09-28 5:31 ` Toni Uebernickel
2017-10-02 23:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-03 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 2:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 3:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 6:15 ` Jeff King
2017-10-03 7:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 7:16 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-10-03 8:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 8:45 ` Jeff King
2017-10-03 8:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 9:10 ` Jeff King
2017-10-03 9:18 ` Tsvi Mostovicz
2017-10-03 10:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 13:37 ` Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:39 ` [PATCH 01/12] test-terminal: set TERM=vt100 Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:40 ` [PATCH 02/12] t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 03/12] t4015: use --color with --color-moved Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:42 ` [PATCH 04/12] t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:43 ` [PATCH 05/12] t7508: use test_terminal for " Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:43 ` [PATCH 06/12] t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:44 ` [PATCH 07/12] t6006: drop "always" color config tests Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:44 ` [PATCH 08/12] t3203: drop "always" color test Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:44 ` [PATCH 09/12] t7301: use test_terminal to check color Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:45 ` [PATCH 10/12] t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:45 ` [PATCH 11/12] provide --color option for all ref-filter users Jeff King
2017-10-03 13:46 ` [PATCH 12/12] color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config Jeff King
2017-10-04 2:59 ` Updated to v2.14.2 on macOS; git add --patch broken Junio C Hamano
2017-10-05 10:06 ` Jeff King
2017-10-20 13:31 ` Jan Prachař
2017-10-03 9:31 ` Jeff King
2017-10-03 4:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] fixing "add -p" regression Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 4:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()" Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 4:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] colors: git_default_config() does not read color.ui Junio C Hamano
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