On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:56:36 +0100 Giuseppe Scrivano <gscri...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Norihiro Tanaka <nori...@kcn.ne.jp> writes: > > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:49:29 +0900 > > Norihiro Tanaka <nori...@kcn.ne.jp> wrote: > > > >> AUTO and ALWAYS are POSIX incompatible, > > > > In addition, if the default is AUTO, and they are also imcompatible with > > previous versions of DIFF by default. > > I meant the default if --color is specified. That is not incompatible > with any previous version since --color was not present. > > Apparently, ls and grep already behaves differently for --color so diff > is not going to make any other difference here. "ls --color" means "ls > --color=always" while "grep --color" behaves like "grep --color=auto". > Having to choose between these two, --color=auto makes more sense for > diff where redirection to files is a common operation. > > I am attaching the latest version of the patch, taking into account > comments from Andreas. I have added colors for header and line numbers, > following the "git diff" colors scheme. > > Thanks, > Giuseppe I understood that you said, agree. Thanks, Norihiro