Re: [PATCH 1/2] color: downgrade "always" to "auto" only for on-disk configuration

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> Should we document this special case treatment of color.* in -c
>> somewhere?  E.g.
>
> Perhaps, although I'd save that until we actually add the new option
> to "git" potty, which hasn't happened yet, if I were thinking about
> adding some text like that.  Also I'd call that --default-color=always
> or something like that, to avoid having to answer: what are the
> differences between these two --color thing in the following?
>
>     git --color=foo cmd --color=bar

I agree that the color.status text in the example doc is unfortunate.
But the surprising thing I found when writing that doc is that
color.status ("git status", "git commit --dry-run") and
color.interactive are the only items that needed it (aside from
color.ui that needed it for those two).  All the other commands that
use color already accept

	git cmd --color=bar

color.interactive applies to multiple commands (e.g. "git clean"), so
it would take a little more chasing down to make them all use
OPT__COLOR.

Heading off to sleep, can look more tomorrow.

I don't think we can get around documenting this -c special case
behavior, though.

diff --git i/builtin/commit.c w/builtin/commit.c
index d75b3805ea..fc5b7cd538 100644
--- i/builtin/commit.c
+++ w/builtin/commit.c
@@ -1345,6 +1345,7 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct object_id oid;
 	static struct option builtin_status_options[] = {
 		OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, N_("be verbose")),
+		OPT__COLOR(&s.use_color, N_("use color")),
 		OPT_SET_INT('s', "short", &status_format,
 			    N_("show status concisely"), STATUS_FORMAT_SHORT),
 		OPT_BOOL('b', "branch", &s.show_branch,
@@ -1595,6 +1596,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	static struct option builtin_commit_options[] = {
 		OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("suppress summary after successful commit")),
 		OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, N_("show diff in commit message template")),
+		OPT__COLOR(&s.use_color, N_("use color")),
 
 		OPT_GROUP(N_("Commit message options")),
 		OPT_FILENAME('F', "file", &logfile, N_("read message from file")),