On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:37:55PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > Unfortunately, there is a historical wart that probably still needs
> > supporting, which is that the original names were diff.color.*. Or have
> > we officially removed support for that yet?
> 
> Neither officially or unofficially yet, but we can start the
> process of making it official with an early announcement.  I do
> not think we would hurt people as long as a long enough advance
> notice is given.

Andy Parkins added color.* (and removed documentation for *.color)
almost a year ago (in a159ca0c). But I don't think there has been an
official deprecation notice.

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> I however am wondering if we need to have so many "enable color
> support" switches.  color.status, color.diff, and now yet
> another color.interactive?  Who sets color.status and/or
> color.interactive to auto without setting color.diff to auto as
> well?

Yes, I have often thought this, as well, and a "color.all" would
probably be convenient.

-Peff
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