From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] color: discourage use of ui.color=always
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:10:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171012021007.7441-3-gitster@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171012021007.7441-1-gitster@pobox.com>
Warn when we read such a configuration from a file, and nudge the
users to spell them 'auto' instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
color.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index cb0f951ddc..ba01b8d3df 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ color.ui::
or the `--color` option. Set it to `true` or `auto` to enable
color when output is written to the terminal (this is also the
default since Git 1.8.4). The value `always` is a historical
- synonym for `auto`.
+ synonym for `auto` and its use is discouraged.
column.ui::
Specify whether supported commands should output in columns.
diff --git a/color.c b/color.c
index 5b06c76bdc..5119f9bca0 100644
--- a/color.c
+++ b/color.c
@@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ int git_config_colorbool(const char *var, const char *value)
if (!strcasecmp(value, "never"))
return 0;
if (!strcasecmp(value, "always")) {
+ static int warn_once;
+
/*
* Command-line options always respect "always".
* Likewise for "-c" config on the command-line.
@@ -320,6 +322,11 @@ int git_config_colorbool(const char *var, const char *value)
* Otherwise, we're looking at on-disk config;
* downgrade to auto.
*/
+ if (!warn_once) {
+ warn_once++;
+ warning("setting '%s' to '%s' is no longer valid; "
+ "set it to 'auto' instead", var, value);
+ }
return GIT_COLOR_AUTO;
}
if (!strcasecmp(value, "auto"))
--
2.15.0-rc1-151-g44fe2f342f
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-12 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-09 23:58 What happened to "git status --color=(always|auto|never)"? Nazri Ramliy
2017-10-10 0:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-10 0:43 ` Nazri Ramliy
2017-10-10 0:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-10 4:42 ` Nazri Ramliy
2017-10-10 10:25 ` Jeff King
2017-10-10 12:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-10 13:06 ` Jeff King
2017-10-10 19:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-10 19:37 ` Jeff King
2017-10-11 2:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 2:10 ` [PATCH 0/2] Piling more kludge on top of color.ui Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 2:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] color: downgrade "always" to "auto" only for on-disk configuration Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 4:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-12 5:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 5:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-12 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 6:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 13:06 ` Jeff King
2017-10-12 15:12 ` Jeff King
2017-10-12 12:31 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 0:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13 1:47 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 3:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13 13:06 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 17:20 ` [PATCH 0/4] peeling back color.ui=always hacks Jeff King
2017-10-13 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config" Jeff King
2017-10-13 17:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests" Jeff King
2017-10-13 17:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()" Jeff King
2017-10-13 17:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] tag: respect color.ui config Jeff King
2017-10-14 3:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] color: downgrade "always" to "auto" only for on-disk configuration Junio C Hamano
2017-10-16 21:53 ` Jeff King
2017-10-17 1:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-17 6:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-18 5:28 ` Jeff King
2017-10-18 5:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-17 6:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-18 5:34 ` Jeff King
2017-10-12 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-12 4:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] color: discourage use of ui.color=always Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-12 15:08 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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