From 136c8c8b8fa39f1315713248473dececf20f8fe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:07:03 -0400 Subject: color: check color.ui in git_default_config() Back in prehistoric times, our decision on whether or not to show color by default relied on using a config callback that either did or didn't load color config like color.diff. When we introduced color.ui, we put it in the same boat: commands had to manually respect it by using git_color_config() or its git_color_default_config() convenience wrapper. But in 4c7f1819b (make color.ui default to 'auto', 2013-06-10), that changed. Since then, we default color.ui to auto in all programs, meaning that even plumbing commands like "git diff-tree --pretty" might colorize the output. Nobody seems to have complained in the intervening years, presumably because the "is stdout a tty" check does a good job of catching the right cases. But that leaves an interesting curiosity: color.ui defaults to auto even in plumbing, but you can't actually _disable_ the color via config. So if you really hate color and set "color.ui" to false, diff-tree will still show color (but porcelain like git-diff won't). Nobody noticed that either, probably because very few people disable color. One could argue that the plumbing should _always_ disable color unless an explicit --color option is given on the command line. But in practice, this creates a lot of complications for scripts which do want plumbing to show user-visible output. They can't just pass "--color" blindly; they need to check the user's config and decide what to send. Given that nobody has complained about the current behavior, let's assume it's a good path, and follow it to its conclusion: supporting color.ui everywhere. Note that you can create havoc by setting color.ui=always in your config, but that's more or less already the case. We could disallow it entirely, but it is handy for one-offs like: git -c color.ui=always foo >not-a-tty when "foo" does not take a --color option itself. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- color.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'color.c') diff --git a/color.c b/color.c index 31b6207a00..7aa8b076f0 100644 --- a/color.c +++ b/color.c @@ -361,14 +361,6 @@ int git_color_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) return 0; } -int git_color_default_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) -{ - if (git_color_config(var, value, cb) < 0) - return -1; - - return git_default_config(var, value, cb); -} - void color_print_strbuf(FILE *fp, const char *color, const struct strbuf *sb) { if (*color) -- cgit v1.2.3