From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30F420365 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751265AbdJCI44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 04:56:56 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:50299 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751059AbdJCI44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 04:56:56 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36229B7C70; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 04:56:55 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=tJUxk/4BQ1CsQvQWMWq4I+4BsWk=; b=pe7xRn 8Jsfa+ksteTPFn5RM586EMC5anq4V9AHHuAU/nwT+0Uj8vnnGt4xU/9ZwVR5cRvH pnquJqyDeGBp4Cvm1PL/vzLEZy/HSugb/jKgmk84Cz5sUWaLGW7ebKWqPcDI9ksP wEtYFI1ywISxRFrzkGjtAMsXg1FFNXqBTypb8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=l2vOl1bu6sthBllQ7vR/gIesYhz3Y2yc Iu1kqmwzW4X/+3bdfy2LoQ6LBN7eouIW130275TKWwW2j9C/9vq6lXfoAzADfcoQ DuQjbSSw8YY+6X3yRyb2n1GYzEq6n7RJqX5AYn9XHMK5vMV/ogJw9YuvDFXd5tyx Va57svXFyGo= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E31FB7C6F; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 04:56:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C12FB7C6D; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 04:56:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Toni Uebernickel , git@vger.kernel.org, Tsvi Mostovicz Subject: Re: Updated to v2.14.2 on macOS; git add --patch broken References: <86D0A377-8AFD-460D-A90E-6327C6934DFC@gmail.com> <20171002230017.GT19555@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com> <20171003061515.72l35fpvcf63vsf6@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20171003071622.el6zqibfyrjc2mra@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20171003084506.lwmnrym4oyf66icz@sigill.intra.peff.net> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:56:53 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20171003084506.lwmnrym4oyf66icz@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 3 Oct 2017 04:45:06 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: CDFB0870-A818-11E7-A0D8-575F0C78B957-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: > Note that I'm arguing that it's a foot-gun even without scripts in the > picture at all. Forget about plumbing versus porcelain. If you set > color.ui to "always", you're going to get unexpected and confusing > results from time to time. Really? I would think you would consistently get ANSI colored output in any medium, even in files that you would later "cat" or "less -R" to view. Is that unexpected? Those who set "always" (I am not among them, of course) would expect that, I would think.