Re: What happened to "git status --color=(always|auto|never)"?

[Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>]

>         commit 6be4595edb8e5b616c6e8b9fbc78b0f831fa2a87
>         Author: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>         Date:   Tue Oct 3 09:46:06 2017 -0400
>
>             color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
>
> Would you like to take a stab at adding it?  builtin/commit.c and
> Documentation/git-{commit,status}.txt would be my best guesses at
> where to start.

Perhaps, seeing that that commit intentionally "broke" the color
output of my tool[1], because it parses the output of `git -c
color.status=always status`, which now no longer work the way it used
to. I know, I know... shame on me for parsing the output of a
porcelain command :)

But this also means that I will have to modify [1] to cope with this,
given that it may be used with an older version of git (parse
git-version and shell out to different git command - either `git -c
color.ui=always status`, or the not-yet-exist `git status
--color=always`), or make it use the plumbing output of `git status`,
but that would just add additional work that  I really don't look
forward to doing at this moment.

nazri

[1] https://github.com/holygeek/git-number
This tool (naively) parses the porcelain output out `git -c
color.status=always status` in order to insert numbers for each
filenames that `git status` prints.