Jeff King <p...@peff.net> 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.