Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
I was almost going to suggest us to change "*.color = true" to
mean 'auto'. Because git can internally use pager and has a way
for the user to control enabling/disabling colors when the pager
is used, there is no _logical_ reason to enable pager when the
output is not going to a tty.
Gaah, sorry; I meant "no logical reason to enable _color_ when
the output is not going to a tty".