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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] for-each-ref: introduce %C(...) for color
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> If %(authordate) is "I want to see the author date here", and
> %(authordate:short) is "I want to see the author date here in the
> short form", you would expect "I want colored output in green" to be
> spelled as %(color:green), or something, perhaps?

Last time, we almost managed a unification: tokens like %authordate in
f-e-r correspond to tokens like %ae in pretty-formats; %C(...) is
different in that it doesn't actually output anything, but changes the
color of tokens following it. While I'm not opposed to %(color:...), I
would prefer a color syntax that is different from other-token syntax,
like in pretty-formats.