Hi Junio,

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > It is highly unlikely that any user would want to see ANSI color
> > sequences in a file. So let's stop doing that by default.
> >
> > This is a backwards-incompatible change.
> >
> > The reason this was not caught earlier is most likely that either
> > --output=<file> is not used, or only when stdout is redirected
> > anyway.
> >
> > Technically, we do not default to --no-color here. Instead, we try to
> > override the GIT_COLOR_AUTO default because it would let want_color()
> > test whether stdout (instead of the specified file) is connected to a
> > terminal. Practically, we require the user to require color "always"
> > to force writing ANSI color sequences to the output file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
> > ---
> > Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/diff-o-v1
> >
> >     Just something I noted while working on a bit more consistency
> >     with the diffopt.file patches.
> >
> >     This is a backwards-incompatible change, though. So I extracted it
> >     from the patch series.
> 
> I think this is a bugfix.

Okay.

> Perhaps I should tweak 06/10 to assign GIT_COLOR_NEVER not 0 while
> queuing it.

Good point.

Thanks,
Dscho
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